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The details of the CIA's torture program are worse than expected; the decision in the Eric Garner case raises serious questions on handling police brutality in the US; and LGBT asylum seekers in Europe may have renewed hope that they can finally start their new lives with dignity - these were among the most popular posts to Dispatches, our daily forum for breaking human rights news and commentary. You can find all our Dispatches here.

Dispatches: CIA Torture Report, A Distrubing Read

John Sifton
I have now read most of the 499-page summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture. Having spent years investigating the abuses detailed by the committee, I did not think it was possible to still be shocked by the CIA – but it is...

Dispatches: Beyond Bodycams - What to Do After Garner and Brown

Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
Yesterday’s grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case in New York City – the second in just over two weeks in which a grand jury in the United States failed to indict a white police officer in the killing of an unarmed African American – has raised important questions about one of the few concrete solutions that US officials (President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, among them) have proposed for dealing with police brutality...

Dispatches: Vladimir's Tale - A Gay Man Seeking Asylum

Boris Dittrich
Last summer, I sat down next to a young man who was reading a Russian novel on the train in Berlin. We started to talk. Vladimir told me he was desperate. He had recently fled Russia because of fear for his safety... 

Dispatches: Europe Must Answer For Its Role in CIA Abuse

Benjamin Ward
The CIA torture techniques detailed in the Senate Intelligence Committee report – repeated mock drownings causing convulsions and vomiting, inserting pureed food into the rectum of a suicidal prisoner – are truly the stuff of nightmares...

Dispatches: Afghanistan and the CIA Torture Report

Patricia Gossman

The US Senate report summary on CIA torture released on Tuesday does more than expose serious human rights violations in the US “War on Terror.” It’s a chilling reminder of how the legacy of those abuses undermines human rights in the very country where that war began: Afghanistan...

 

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