Trump orders review of restriction on torturing prisoners: Report
January 26, 2017  00:14
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United States President Donald Trump's administration is drafting an executive order that would allow the Central Intelligence Agency to reopen overseas 'black sites' that were used to torture suspects after 9/11, the American media reported on Wednesday.

The order also would undo many of the restrictions on handling detainees put in place under former President Barack Obama to roll back practices authorised during George W Bush's administration, the New York Times reported.

It would revoke the directive that gives the Red Cross access to all war detainees in US custody, and would order the Pentagon to continue to use the Guantanamo military prison facility 'for the detention and trial of newly captured' detainees, including Islamic State jihadists, according to the Times.

The order calls for a high-level review of policies regarding secret overseas CIA prisons, as well as of enhanced interrogation tactics that have been widely condemned as torture, and are now prohibited by law. -- Agencies
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