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#Torture : Voici les techniques d’interrogatoires « poussés » de la CIA - La Libre
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Ce procès mené par l’ACLU, la grande organisation américaine de défense des libertés sera le premier sur les méthodes de torture utilisées par les autorités américaines dans la « guerre contre la terreur ». Il vise deux psychologues, James Mitchell et Bruce Jessen, recrutés par la CIA en 2002 pour concevoir et aider à mener des interrogatoires sur des suspects capturés en Afghanistan et ailleurs.

Les deux hommes ont reçu un montant de 80 millions de dollars pour leur travail , notamment les interrogatoires de Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, le cerveau des attentats du 11 septembre et de Abu Zubaydah, un autre haut responsable d’Al Qaïda. L’ACLU affirme que MM. Jessen et Mitchell sont responsables et ont profité financièrement de tortures illégales à l’encontre des trois plaignants : le Tanzanien Suaniman Abdullah Salim, le Libyen Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud et l’Afghan Gul Rahman. Les deux premiers ont été libérés après plusieurs années de détention, alors que Gul Rahman est mort d’hypothermie dans une cellule de la CIA en novembre 2002, après ce que l’ACLU a décrit comme deux semaines de « torture brutale ».

Scary images show CIA’s secret blacksites where prisoners are held under American order | Daily Mail Online
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Inside CIA’s secret prisons: Haunting images show ’blacksites’, where prisoners have been held and tortured around the globe on American orders

The images have been curated by British photographer Edmund Clark and counter-terrorism investigator Crofton Black
They confront the nature of contemporary warfare head on and reveal the accountability of state control
One picture shows the CIA’s first prison, where inmates were kept in complete darkness and constantly shackled
No public records were kept to trace the detainees and some still remain completely unaccounted for to this day

By Alexandra Genova For Dailymail.com

Published: 01:41 GMT, 22 March 2016 | Updated: 16:47 GMT, 24 March 2016

An empty interrogation chair, a windowless warehouse and a prison known as The Salt Pit where inmates were kept in complete darkness , constantly shackled in isolated cells with loud noise or music and only a bucket to use for human waste.

These haunting images curated by British photographer Edmund Clark and counter-terrorism investigator Crofton Black confront the nature of contemporary warfare head on, and in doing so reveal the invisible mechanisms of state control.

One picture shows The Salt Pit, the CIA’s first prison in Afghanistan, upon which the visiting Federal Bureau of Prisons commented they had ’never been in a facility where individuals are so sensory deprived’.

Gul Rahman, a young Afghan detainee, died of hypothermia there in November 2002. He was buried in an unmarked grave.

And in Lithuania, a windowless warehouse surrounded by woodland was secretly built by the CIA to use as a prison facility.

George W. Bush’s 2001 declaration of the ’war on terror’ until 2008, an unknown number of people disappeared into a network of secret prisons, according to the book’s research.

These have been organized by the CIA-transfers without legal process and are known as extraordinary renditions. No public records were kept to trace the detainees as they were shuttled to different outposts around the world.

And while some were eventually sent to Guantánamo Bay or released without charge, others remain completely unaccounted for.

The book, called Negative Publicity: Artifacts of Extraordinary Rendition aims to ’raise fundamental questions about the accountability and complicity of our governments, and the erosion of our most basic civil rights’.

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The Government’s Unprecedented Position in #CIA #Torture Lawsuit Is Very Good News
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Those responsible for the CIA torture program have never had to face their victims’ claims in a U.S. court because the government has always shielded the perpetrators. Until now.

Next week, three victims of the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program are taking a critical and unprecedented step in seeking accountability from the men who devised their torture. On April 22, a federal court in Spokane, Washington, will hear the ACLU’s argument on behalf of Suleiman Abdullah Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, and the family of Gul Rahman. They have sued James Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, the psychologists who teamed up with the CIA to design, implement, and oversee the agency’s torture program, which ensnared at least 119 men from its inception in 2002 until it was shuttered in 2008.

Here’s How Two Psychologists Allegedly Tortured Three Former CIA Prisoners - BuzzFeed News
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing two psychologists who allegedly devised and ran the CIA’s torture program as detailed in last year’s scathing Senate report on the agency’s detention and interrogation policies during the Bush administration.

The ACLU filed the lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of three former CIA prisoners who were tortured using methods recommended by James Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, two U.S. psychologists who were paid millions of dollars by the CIA to oversee, and at times, personally participate in torture sessions of detainees.

The ACLU is representing three men, Suleiman Abdullah Salim and Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud — who are now free — and Gul Rahman, who was allegedly tortured to death in his cell in 2002. The U.S. never accused or charged any of the three men with a crime, the ACLU said in a press release.

The lawsuit seeks damages from the two psychologists for their “commission of torture, cruel, inhuman treatment” as well as “nonconsensual human experimentation and war crimes.”

« Entre 2005 et 2009, les services secrets américains ont fait appel à deux anciens psychologues de l’armée de l’air pour mettre au point de nouvelles méthodes de tortures.

Près de 80 millions de dollars. C’est ce qu’auraient coûté à la CIA les conseils de deux Américains, anciens psychologues de l’armée de l’air. » slate