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CIA Torture Victim Alleges Wider Abuses

HeadlineJun 03, 2015

A victim whose torture is documented in last year’s Senate report is accusing the CIA of more abuses than previously disclosed. Guantánamo Bay prisoner Majid Khan was among those subjected to rectal feeding. But according to Reuters, Khan has also told lawyers “interrogators poured ice water on his genitals, twice videotaped him naked and repeatedly touched his [genitals].” Khan says he suffered hallucinations and wished for his interrogators to take his life.

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