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After CIA Torture Revelations, United States Must Now Recover Moral High Ground – UN Expert

“If the US tortures, why can’t we do it?”

Mr. Juan Mendez, Special Rapporteur on Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–11 December 2014 – The United States’ use of torture when interrogating prisoners captured in its “War on Terror” has damaged the country’s moral high ground and created a set-back in the global fight against the condemnable practice, a United Nations human rights expert has declared.

“The example set…

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