
"Khaled El-Masri and other victims of CIA torture continue to wait for what they deserve--a full criminal investigation into those responsible for overseeing and implementing the program, an acknowledgment of what they went through, an official apology, and compensation to help them rebuild their lives."
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New CIA Torture Documents Confirm Chilling Details of Khaled El-Masri's 'Kafka-esque' Ordeal
After being mistakenly abducted in Macedonia and detained in a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan, Khaled El-Masri told his interrogators that his ongoing detention was like "a Kafka novel." A cable to CIA headquarters reported that El-Masri said he "could not possibly prove his innocence because he did not know what he was being charged with."