Afghanistan’s president expressed displeasure Wednesday with the CIA report on extreme interrogations.
In a televised address following the release of the Senate report, detailing extreme interrogation techniques used on suspected terrorists in Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 attacks, President Ashraf Ghani called the report “shocking,” according to Reuters.
Ghani said the accounts of what took place in the CIA dentition centers “violated all accepted norms of human rights in the world.”
He also demanded to know how many of the 119 detainees were Afghans.
The report released Tuesday by Sen. Dianne Feinstein after five and a half years of investigations by the Senate Intelligence Committee details what the government did in its secret overseas detention facilities.
Ghani’s statement comes at a time when relations between the U.S. and Afghanistan have been considered to be improving.
“President Ghani has reached out and embraced the international community,” Gen. John Campbell, the allied commander in Afghanistan, told the New York Times in late November. “We have a strategic opportunity we haven’t had previously with President Karzai.”
