According to a report released Wednesday by Open Society Foundations, Thailand was one of 54 countries that assisted the US Central Intelligence Agency in a wide-reaching anti-terrorism campaign that involved what many have described as torture.
Thailand’s assistance came in the form of safe houses, which it offered to CIA operatives and allies of the US government. Within these safe houses, prisoners were, in the words of the report, “thrown against fake walls, forced into stressful physical functions, involuntarily stripped naked and slapped.”
The Bangkok Post reports that the Thai government has proffered nothing in the way of an official response to the report, though it has in the past denied helping the US with any illegal acts.
Billionaire George Soros is the founder of Open Society Foundations. This report marks the most extensive study to date into the US’s extrajudicial interrogation of prisoners following 9/11.
