EU lawmaker says US pressured media not to report on our torture camps

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A member of the European Parliament said on Thursday that the White House has pressured journalists not to name certain European countries in their reports about CIA detention practices on the continent.

Claudio Fava of Italy, charged with writing a European Parliament committee report on possible secret CIA prisons and detainee transfers in Europe, did not identify the journalists, newspapers or television networks he said had been pressured.

"We think that the detailed confirmation we have of pressure being exerted by the White House on journalists not to name certain European countries is an extremely important point for our work," said Fava, who was visiting Washington as part of a 13-member delegation from the European Parliament, the European Union's legislature.

Administration officials were not immediately available for comment.