Rights groups petition US to create special prosecutor for torture claims
By Devin Montgomery on Jun 24, 2015 03:57 pm
Human rights groups Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union [advocacy websites] on Tuesday
issued a joint letter [text] to the US Department of Justice (DOJ)
calling for the creation of a special prosecutor to investigate claims
that Central Intelligence Agency agents used torture against detainees
held at Guantanamo Bay prison and elsewhere. The groups said that the
executive summary [text, PDF; JURIST report] of a US Senate
investigation into the matter justified further action, and... +read more
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