Report: CIA photographed detainees naked before sending them to be tortured
The Guardian reports that the CIA took naked pictures of detainees before sending them off to foreign countries to be tortured.
Click here for reuse options!The naked imagery of CIA captives raises new questions about the seeming willingness of the US to use what one medical and human rights expert called “sexual humiliation” in its post-9/11 captivity of terrorism suspects. Some human rights campaigners described the act of naked photography on unwilling detainees as a potential war crime.
Unlike video evidence of CIA torture at its undocumented “black site” prisons that were destroyed in 2005 by a senior official, the CIA is said to retain the photographs.
In some of the photos, which remain classified, CIA captives are blindfolded, bound and show visible bruises. Some photographs also show people believed to be CIA officials or contractors alongside the naked detainees.
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Gina Bousquet March 28th, 2016 at 11:11
No need of evidence.
Mike March 28th, 2016 at 14:41
Obviously, this was done for their protection…/s
mistlesuede March 28th, 2016 at 15:55
I went in search of the name of Lyndie England who was one of the creatures in the photos of the naked prisoners being tortured, because someone asked about what happened to her. I thought she had received a court martial, which she had and I wanted to make sure I answered with the correct information. The site I landed on had so many photos I’d never seen before.
I was overcome with the same pain I felt when this was exposed and even more disgust.
Gina Bousquet March 28th, 2016 at 16:14
The link between the CIA and torture is not that recent, and I’m always uneasy with my memories of it.