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THE WEEK IN RIGHTS December 11, 2014 Follow us on:

US Senate Report Slams CIA Torture, Lies Photo © 2014 Reuters The US Senate Intelligence Committee’s report summary on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detention and interrogation program is a powerful denunciation of the agency’s extensive and systematic use of torture. The 525-page partially redacted summary, released Tuesday, is part of a 6,700-page classified report that the committee has still not indicated it plans to release. The summary documents numerous misrepresentations the CIA made about the program’s effectiveness and demonstrates US officials’ knowledge that it was illegal. It underscores the need for the US government to promptly release the full report, bolster oversight of the CIA, and investigate and appropriately prosecute the senior officials responsible for the torture program. Read more » share on:

South Sudan: One Year Later, Injustice Prevails The unaddressed abuses and bloody cycle of ethnic revenge killings in the South Sudan conflict create an urgent need to hold those responsible for atrocities to account. But domestic will and capacity to prosecute the cases in South Sudan is not there.  See the Latest News in Africa »  share on:

Seventeen Women in El Salvador Need Help This Holiday Season  By Amanda Klasing In El Salvador, 17 women convicted of murder, after being accused of having had an abortion, are sitting in prison for up to 40 years. For some of these women, having a miscarriage or stillbirth was used as evidence to convict them. Activists in El Salvador and around the globe are pressuring the government for their release, hopefully in time for the Christmas holidays.  See the Latest News in the Americas >>  share on:

Vietnam: Stop Using Absurd Laws to Imprison Critics There can hardly be a more insidious legal provision than one that criminalizes "abusing freedom and democracy to infringe on the interests of the state." These charges are even more preposterous from a government that is not democratic and doesn’t respect individual freedom.  See the Latest News in Asia »  share on:

Dispatches: Burning Down the House in Chechnya By Tanya Lokshina  “If a rebel kills a policeman or another person, his family will be immediately expelled from Chechnya with no right to return, and their house will be razed to the ground.”  See the Latest News in Europe/Central Asia >>  share on:

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