Rights Watch: Evidence of wider US waterboarding

FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 file photo, Libyans search for documents inside Abu Salim prison, Libya's most notorious prison of Gadhafi's regime and the scene of a 1996 massacre of prisoners, in Tripoli, Libya. A new report by New York-based Human Rights Watch reveals details about abuse and torture of Libyan Islamist detainees by their own government and the US and cooperation between Libya led by dictator Moammar Gadhafi and other governments, including the US, Britain, China, Sudan and Morocco, in the rendition program. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)Human Rights Watch said it has uncovered evidence of a wider use of waterboarding in American interrogations of detainees than has been acknowledged by the United States, in a report Thursday that details further brutal treatment at secret CIA-run prisons under the Bush administration-era U.S. program of detention and rendition of terror suspects.


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