A new UN Committee Against Torture report criticizes serious US civil and human rights abuses.
Including secret CIA detentions. Extraordinary renditions. Interrogation practices. Systematic use of torture.
Immigration detention abuses. Criminal injustice. America’s death penalty. Police brutality. Racial profiling. Brutalizing longterm solitary confinement.
Protection of prisoners against violence. Rape and other forms of sexual abuse.
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and other civil society groups submitted shadow reports. Highlighting concerns about Washington failure to comply with human rights treaty obligations. Continue reading