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The US justice department has ended its investigation into the CIA's interrogation programme for terror detainees, without bringing charges, BBC reported.

The probe, which studied two deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq, ends a series of reviews into the treatment of 101 detainees in US custody since 9/11.

Attorney General Eric Holder said there was not enough evidence to "sustain a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt."

A prominent civil rights group said the result was a "scandal."

But CIA officials welcomed the decision.

In June 2011 the justice department began a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two men while in custody.

The department has never named the men, but they are widely reported to have been Gul Rahman and Manadel al-Jamadi.

Gul Rahman died in November 2002 at a CIA-run prison in Afghanistan known as the Salt Pit after being shackled to a concrete wall.

Manadel al-Jamadi died at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003, and a military post-mortem examination declared his death a homicide.

In a statement, Mr Holder said: "Based on the fully developed factual record concerning the two deaths, the Department has declined prosecution because the admissible evidence would not be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt."