GENEVA: A United Nations anti-torture panel that is investigating the United States said on Friday (Saturday in Manila) it was deeply concerned by what it described as the high incidence of police brutality and shootings — especially against African-Americans — in the United States, was troubled by what it called harsh conditions in many prisons and was worried about the interrogation methods used on detainees.
The experts on the United Nations panel called for declassifying evidence of torture by the US — in particular Guantanamo Bay detainees’ accounts — and declassifying and promptly releasing, with minimal redactions, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report about the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret detention and interrogation program.
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