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Senate passes torture ban despite Republican opposition
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 23:52
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Senate passes torture ban despite Republican opposition | 16 June 2015 | Twenty-one Republican senators rejected a ban on the use of cruel and degrading treatment of prisoners on Tuesday, voting against an ultimately successful measure to permanently prevent a repeat of the CIA's once secret and now widely-discredited torture program. The bipartisan amendment reaffirms President Barack Obama's prohibition of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding and sleep deprivation, which were developed by the CIA under the administration of his predecessor, George W Bush. The measure passed in the Senate, 78-21.
Source: http://www.legitgov.org/Senate-passes-torture-ban-despite-Republican-opposition
