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Reactions from world leaders and international organizations have been pouring in following the release of a summary of what the media has labeled the "CIA torture report."

The review was produced by the US Senate Intelligence Committee after a thorough investigation of CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program. The program authorized CIA officers to use extreme interrogation techniques, including sleep deprivation, water boarding, painful stress positions, dietary manipulation, walling, 'rectal rehydration' or rectal feeding, etc. All of them amount to nothing less than torture, according to the US Senate Intelligence Committee.

"It is now time to take action. The individuals responsible for the criminal conspiracy revealed in today's report must be brought to justice, and must face criminal penalties commensurate with the gravity of their crimes," said Ben Emmerson, UN special rapporteur on counter terrorism and human rights.

"International law prohibits the granting of immunities to public officials who have engaged in acts of torture. This applies not only to the actual perpetrators but also to those senior officials within the US Government who devised, planned and authorized these crimes. As a matter of international law, the US is legally obliged to bring those responsible to justice," he added.

"US Senate's report confirms the systematic use of torture in CIA prisons in violation of international obligations of the United States. It is a well-known fact," Russian Foreign Ministry's human rights ombudsman Konstantin Dolgov said.

Anatoly Kucherena, a Russian lawyer representing Edward Snowden, said that torture is unacceptable under any circumstances. "However one tries to justify torture, it curtails basic human rights," he said.

The US seems to be using human rights issues as a political tool, China's state news agency Xinhua said in an opinion piece on the report. The US "is neither a suitable role model nor a qualified judge on human rights issues in other countries, as it pertains to be," it stated.

"The declassified information contained in the summary, while limited, is a reminder to the world of the utter failure of the USA to end the impunity enjoyed by those who authorized and used torture and other ill-treatment. This is a wake-up call to the USA. It must disclose the full truth about the human rights violations, hold perpetrators accountable and ensure justice for the victims. It is a requirement under international law," said Erika Guevara Rosas, America's Director of Amnesty International.