[caption id="attachment_19904" align="alignright" width="167"] Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin[/caption] he Russian Permanent Representative to the UN has no doubt that the CIA tortures will be on the UN Human Rights Council's agenda. MOCSOW, December 20 (Sputnik) The US torture practices may be brought ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian lawmaker slammed the United Nations inaction on the violation of human rights in the United States, after Senate unveiled details of torture program at the CIA. Referring to the recent US Senate report released on CIA tortures, Evaz Heidarpour, member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy ...

Afghans joined the global community to denounce the US Central Intelligence Agencys (CIA) use of brutal interrogation techniques on prisoners as cited in a report presented to the American Senate on Tuesday. Former Afghan Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and Bagram airbase in Afghanistan also complained of torture during their days ...

[caption id="attachment_136457" align="alignright" width="186"] France's far-right National Front political party leader Marine Le Pen[/caption] Recent revelations of shocking CIA torture tactics against foreign suspects should prompt France to pull out of NATO, a leading French ultra-right politician says. If indeed everyone is outraged by the tortures ...

[caption id="attachment_136356" align="alignright" width="115"] People are silhouetted as they pose with laptops in front of a screen projected with binary code and a Central Inteligence Agency (CIA) emblem, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica October 29, 2014.[/caption] (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney GeneralEric Holder has decided not to force ...

US President Barack Obama says he is concerned about retaliation against the US interests overseas following the release of the CIA torture report by the Senate. During an interview with Telemundo, the US president said on Tuesday that he was worried about potential ramifications overseas and his administration has taken precautionary steps to deal ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian lawmaker described the CIA torture report as a political debacle for the US and urged for a special UN envoy to investigate the issue. Saleh Jokar, a member of Iranian Parliaments National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, told the Tasnim News Agency that the United Nations should appoint a rapporteur to pursue ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said that the United States had committed "inexcusable crimes" during its torture program detailed by a US Senate report. Speaking via videolink at a Paris conference organized by pressure group Amnesty International, Snowden -- who exposed secret NSA documents -- said he was ...

World leaders and international organizations have condemned the extreme interrogation techniques used by the CIA in its Detention and Interrogation Program following the release of a detailed report on the agencys torture program. MOSCOW, December 10 (Sputnik) Reactions fromworld leaders and international organizations have been pouring infollowing ...

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham has called a US Senate report on the CIAs torture program shocking. The content of this shocking report shows violence, extremism, and secrecy as institutionalized in the US security system, Afkham said in a statement on Wednesday. She voiced concerns that the illegal processes and inhumane measures ...

(Reuters) - A Twitter account associated with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei said on Wednesday that a U.S. Senate report into CIA torture showed the U.S. government was a "symbol of tyranny against humanity". In a message bearing the hashtag "TortureReport", used to connect comments on the topic on the social media platform, the account ...

[caption id="attachment_136007" align="alignright" width="205"] Former Guantanamo prisoner Moazzam Begg[/caption] A former Guantanamo Bay detainee says the use of torture by the Central Intelligence Agency at US-run prisons created the ISIL terrorist group in the Middle East. Moazzam Begg, who was detained at the prison for nearly three years, said ...

[caption id="attachment_135990" align="alignright" width="183"] The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report detailing torture techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency during the term of George W. Bush.[/caption] A truncated version of the Senate investigation into the CIA's Terror War torture regime has finally been released. Even ...