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9 brutal ways CIA tortured terror detainees

Last updated on: December 10, 2014 13:27 IST

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'