In a 2015 article from The Guardian, it was claimed that the CIA used sexual abuse along with a wider array of other forms of torture.
After being held for almost four years at secret CIA facilities, al-Nashiri was transferred in 2006 to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) inspected some of the prison facilities in June 2004. In a confidential report issued in July 2004 and leaked to The New York Times in November 2004, Red Cross inspectors accused the U.S.
The inspectors concluded that "the construction of such a system, whose stated purpose is the production of intelligence, cannot be considered other than an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture." The United States government reportedly rejected the Red Cross findings at the time.
IMPACT: Guantánamo Bay military prison is a site of egregious and ongoing human rights violations perpetrated by the United States government.