{"id":73217,"date":"2014-12-11T05:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T05:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=73217"},"modified":"2014-12-10T22:09:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T22:09:47","slug":"afghanistan-decries-cia-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/12\/afghanistan-decries-cia-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan decries CIA ‘violations’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Afghan President Asraf Ghani has said the CIA’s brutal interrogation programme “violated all accepted norms of human rights in the world”.<\/p>\n
He is among many world leaders condemning how the agency imprisoned and questioned al-Qaeda suspects.<\/p>\n
A US Senate report on the programme has said the harsh methods did not lead to unique intelligence that foiled plots.<\/p>\n
The report also concluded the agency misled politicians and public about the 2001-2007 programme.<\/p>\n
The CIA has defended its actions in the years after the 9\/11 attacks on the US, saying they saved lives.<\/p>\n
And President Barack Obama has said it was now time to move on, despite acknowledging some of the CIA’s actions amounted to torture.<\/p>\n
None of the countries where the prisons were located has been identified in the report, but several countries suspected to have hosted sites reacted strongly to the publication.<\/p>\n
In a press conference on Wednesday, Mr Ghani, who became president in September, called the report “shocking”.<\/p>\n
“There is no justification for such acts and human torturing in the world.”<\/p>\n
He vowed to investigate how many Afghans had suffered abuse at US detention centres.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, US military officials said the final prisoners had left Parwan Detention Center, bringing to an end the US operation of any prisons in the country after more than a decade of war.<\/p>\n
Poland’s former president has publicly acknowledged for the first time his country hosted a secret CIA prison.<\/p>\n
Aleksander Kwasniewski said that he put pressure on the US to end brutal interrogations at the prison in 2003.<\/p>\n
“I told Bush that this co-operation must end and it did end,” Mr Kwasniewski told local media.<\/p>\n
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Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius called on the US to say whether CIA used his country to interrogate prisoners.<\/p>\n
A previous Lithuanian investigation found the CIA set up and ran a facility near the country’s capital but could not determine if prisoners were held there.<\/p>\n
Germany’s foreign minister also criticised US actions on Wednesday in the Bild newspaper, saying “what was then considered right and done in the fight against Islamist terrorism was unacceptable and a serious mistake”.<\/p>\n
But Frank-Walter Steinmeier praised Mr Obama for releasing the information, calling it a clear break with his predecessor.<\/p>\n
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Ben Emmerson said that senior officials from the administration of George W Bush who planned and sanctioned crimes must be prosecuted, as well as CIA and US government officials responsible for torture such as waterboarding.<\/p>\n
“As a matter of international law, the US is legally obliged to bring those responsible to justice,” Mr Emmerson said in a statement made from Geneva.<\/p>\n
And Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth said that the CIA’s actions were criminal “and can never be justified”.<\/p>\n