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Revelations about CIA mistreatment of captive terrorism suspects has spurred worldwide revulsion and provided ammunition to foreign critics who accuse the United States of a double standard on human rights at home and abroad.
The report, estimated to have cost US$40 million, and the damning details were received by friendly and hostile nations alike as validation of their criticism of the George W. Bush administration's secret detention and interrogation programmes after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Among the critics was China which urged the US to "correct its ways".
"China has consistently opposed torture," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said.
Afghanistan's new president, Ashraf Ghani, condemned the torture claims in the "strongest terms".
"All the accepted principles of human rights or those of US laws have been violated by a number of CIA staff and contractors," he said.
"This will have a very negative impact on the image of the United States," Teng Jianqun, director of the Centre for Arms Control at the China Institute of International Studies, said.
He said US officials sought to present themselves as "the big boys on human rights affairs in the international community," publishing evaluations of other countries' behaviour while clandestinely engaging in "notorious" actions of their own.
Global human rights advocates called for charges to be brought against the American architects and perpetrators of the interrogation tactics that US President Barack Obama called "contrary to our values." "The individuals responsible for the criminal conspiracy revealed in today's report must be brought to justice, and must face criminal penalties commensurate with the gravity of their crimes," said Ben Emmerson, special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights.
Obama's administration, including Secretary of State John Kerry, yesterday sought to reassure its allies around the globe that the US no longer engaged in the brutal interrogation tactics.
Europeans, including those from countries that aided the US rendition and interrogation programme, reacted mostly positively to the release of a highly critical summary report that described examples of torture.
Additional reporting from Agence France-Presse


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Revelations about CIA mistreatment of captive terrorism suspects has spurred worldwide revulsion and provided ammunition to foreign critics who accuse the United States of a double standard on human rights.
