Ayatollah Khatami slams US violation of human rights torturing detainees

Rasa - Ayatollah Khatami has lashed out at the US government for violating human rights by using brutal torture techniques against its detainees.

News ID: 1806

Date: 12 December 2014 - 21:41

RNA - “Their tortures are medieval; the Americans, who speak of human rights, are the world’s frontrunners in violating human rights,” PressTV quoted Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami as saying during Friday prayer sermon in Tehran.

The permanent Friday prayer preacher of Tehran's remarks came days after the US Senate Intelligence Committee released a damning report on the CIA’s torture program, which has triggered worldwide condemnation.

The CIA’s torture program involved capturing terrorism suspects and shipping them to secret overseas prisons known as black sites, where they were subjected to torture technics such as water-boarding.

The Senate report concluded that the CIA interrogation techniques were an “ineffective means of acquiring accurate intelligence or gaining detainee cooperation.”

Referring to the recent killing of unarmed blacks by white police officers in the US Ayatollah Khatami said, “Today, the US is a huge exhibition of human rights violations; the US police kill blacks, and their courts acquit the murderer; and those who protest crimes and racial discrimination are confronted.”

On August 9, unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was repeatedly shot by officer Darren Wilson at close range. A grand jury later refused to indict Wilson.

In another similar incident, 43-year-old Eric Garner died in mid-July after being placed in a chokehold by New York Police Department Officer Daniel Pantaleo. Another jury also refused to press charges against Pantaleo.

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