Waterboarding

In 2019, John Kiriakou, a former CIA analyst and case officer jailed for revealing to a reporter the use of waterboarding in the interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects, sought a pardon from President Donald Trump. This had been revealed then by the Washington Times.

A lipstick pistol, a button-hole camera, a lethal umbrella and an authentic waterboarding table: The espionage world's heroic, ingenious and sordid sides are all on show in Washington's all-new, much-expanded International Spy Museum.

Two psychologists who helped design the CIA's post-9/11 interrogation program settled a lawsuit Aug. 17 by detainees alleging they were illegally tortured. 

Norway violated mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's human rights by exposing him to inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment while serving his prison sentence, a Norwegian court ruled on April 20.

Breivik took Norwegian authorities to court in March, accusing them of breaching the European Convention on Human Rights by keeping him isolated from other prisoners. 

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on August 13 declined to rule out resuming the use of torture under some circumstances by the U.S. government.

A parliamentary committee investigating possible British links to torture will request access to blacked out parts of a US Senate report on CIA treatment of Al-Qaeda suspects, its chairman said Dec. 14.
      

Turkey has condemned the torture committed by the CIA against terrorism suspects in the post-Sept. 11 era, following the recent release of a report issued by the U.S. Senate's Intelligence Committee.

CIA torture of al-Qaeda suspects was far more brutal than acknowledged, did not produce useful intelligence and was so poorly managed it lost track of detainees, a scathing U.S. Senate report revealed Dec. 9.

American embassies were on heightened alert Dec. 9 amid fears of a backlash to a long-delayed US Senate report into the CIA's brutal interrogation of Al-Qaeda suspects after the 2001 attacks.
      

The CIA tortured al-Qaeda suspects "until the point of death" by drowning them in water-filled baths, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported on Sept. 8, ahead of the publication of a U.S. Senate report on interrogation techniques.