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The 500-page United States Select Committee on Intelligence’s damning report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s torture tactics lists numerous instances of rights violations. While it is difficult to point out every ghastly detail here, rediff.com lists at least 9 instances.
He spent 266 hours inside coffin-size confinement box 
Detainee was made to wear a diaper; exposed to dangerously loud music
Detainees were shackled to the walls, kept in darkness, given buckets for human waste
They threatened to sexually abuse Al-Rahim al-Nashiri's mother in front of him
Detainee was tortured for addressing interrogator as 'SIR'; put in isolation for over 2 years
CIA put hummus in a detainee Majid Khan's rectum
Another detainee was waterboarded 183 times
When CIA HQ ordered interrogators to go beyond legal limits
Rough takedowns were 'part of the atmospherics'