CIA Activities

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Europe/Central Asia

May 31, 2018 News Release

Lithuania/Romania: Ruling Highlights CIA Torture Complicity
United States

March 25, 2018 Commentary

Gina Haspel is the wrong choice to head the CIA

Laura Pitter
Senior National Security Counsel, US Program

Published In: The Hill
United States

March 23, 2018 News Release

US Senate: Reject Haspel for CIA Director

Videos Watch More

October 3, 2016 Video

Video: Ex-Detainee Describes Unreported CIA Torture
October 22, 2015 Video

UN Report: Protect Public Disclosures of Wrongdoing

Reports More Reports

October 3, 2016

US: Ex-Detainees Describe Unreported CIA Torture

Electric Chair Threats, Baton Beatings, Various Water Tortures
December 1, 2015

No More Excuses

A Roadmap to Justice for CIA Torture
February 19, 2014

A Wedding That Became a Funeral

US Drone Attack on Marriage Procession in Yemen

News

March 23, 2018 Letter

Letter to US Senate Opposing Gina Haspel's Nomination for CIA Director
March 16, 2018 Letter

Rights Groups Gravely Concerned Over Haspel Nomination for CIA
March 13, 2018 News Release

Trump Nominees’ Troubling History on Torture
November 28, 2017 Statement

Human Rights Watch's Testimony for North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture
November 28, 2017 Dispatches

North Carolina Citizens’ Commission Examines US Torture

Laura Pitter
Senior National Security Counsel, US Program
June 22, 2017 Letter

Groups Express Concern Over Trump Nominee for Role in Torture
June 7, 2017 Letter

Groups Express Concern over US Office of Legal Counsel Nominee
June 2, 2017 Statement

Statement on Trump Administration’s Return of Senate Torture Report
January 9, 2017 Commentary

Barack Obama’s Shaky Legacy on Human Rights

Kenneth Roth
Executive Director

Published In: Foreign Policy
December 6, 2016 News Release

Statement on President Obama’s MacDill Air Force Base Speech
December 6, 2016 News Release

US: Counterterrorism Report Sets Standards
November 18, 2016 News Release

US: Trump’s National Security Choice Won’t Rule Out Torture

Daily Brief

June 18, 2018

Authorities in the US are taking thousands of children from their parents; HRW's solution for failing migration policies in the European Union; Push to protect rights in the diamond trade; Thailand junta leader visits France & UK; Climate change and Kiribati's disappearing islands; and news from the struggle for justice for war crimes in Syria and Spain.