India: US 'briefed about Kashmir torture'
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The dispatches uncover alleged briefings made by the ICRC to US diplomats in Delhi about the use of electrocution, beatings and sexual humiliation against hundreds of detainees.
ICRC staff had apparently informed US diplomats of 681 cases of various forms of torture.
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