Torture

Torture is a willful infliction of pain as a means of procuring information from a prisoner of war. It is specifically used as method of interrogation wherein the prisoner is forced to succumb to physical and or psychological anguish.

There are various methods of torture, including sleep and sensory deprivation, sensory overload, physical and psychological pain, humiliation, imposed starvation and asphyxiation.

The act of torture is strictly forbidden by the United Nations Convention against Torture and other international regulatory bodies. The effectiveness of torturing prisoners is also a dubious prospect as throughout history, prisoners have confessed to a variety of allegations as a means to suspend their pain.

Many have protested the use of torture as an interrogation tactic, and argued for the violation of ethics and morality in the deliberate attempt to cause suffering as a means of gain information.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Torture”

• Murder at Guantanamo? The Strange Death of Mohammad Saleh al Hanashi

  
  Invictus — Authority: 417
  First reported at Truthout (additional material added since the original article is in brackets) With recent news reports centering on Attorney General Eric Holders announcement that some Guantanamo detainees would be prosecuted in federal court and revamped, albeit flawed military commissions, important ...
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• Command responsibility and other notes

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 545
  Some miscellaneous points on the Afghanistan torture issue from the past day... 1. There is arguably a legal duty for the Harper government to undertake an independent investigation, i.e., a judicial inquiry on this matter, now that these allegations have come to light. Canada is a founding member of the ...
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• Bagram: A living hell

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  Morning Star Online, November 20, 2009 Paddy McGuffin The US military has allowed journalists into its newly expanded secret detention centre at Bagram air base in Afghanistan this week. The base has been described by campaigners as Guantanamo Bay’s “more evil twin” and the allegations of ...
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• Britain knew CIA tortured detainee

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor, The Independent/UK , Nov 20, 2009 AFP/Getty The judgement revealed Binyam Mohamad was treated the same way as an al-Qa’ida suspect tortured by the CIA Britain knew that American agents were using barbaric torture techniques on terror suspects, including British ...
  4 hours ago

• 21 dead in Philippines hostage slayings

  
  Vlad Tepes — Authority: 150
  The religion of peace kills again and again and again. Manila, Philippines (CNN) — The wife of a candidate for governor and about 30 others were abducted Monday morning in the southern Philippines — with at least 21 of them later killed, army officials said. The woman was on her way to file her husband’s ...
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• The War On Consciousness

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 545
  We are truly in a war. It is not the war we imagine we are in, which is the way our true adversaries want it. It is not a foreign war against a foreign enemy. It is a war on consciousness, a war on our own minds. The global war on terror that is being fought around the world is an embodied reflection in the material ...
  5 hours ago

• Britain knew CIA tortured detainee

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 485
  By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor, The Independent/UK , Nov 20, 2009 AFP/Getty The judgement revealed Binyam Mohamad was treated the same way as an al-Qa’ida suspect tortured by the CIA Britain knew that American agents were using barbaric torture techniques on terror suspects, including British resident ...
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• Original Cfnm Torture Pics

  
  Original Cfnm Blog — Authority: 121
  Making their boyfriends who suffer from pain is what turn these cruel mistresses on. They enjoy Forcing Men into situations beyond their control, then manipulate them through applying pressure to their most delicate parts, penises and balls which become blue and swollen ready to explode… Cfnm Torture Pics
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• Winning hearts and minds in Afghanistan

  
  Creekside — Authority: 512
  MacKay : "Not a single Taliban soldier turned over by Canadian forces can be proved to have been abused. That is the crux of the issue." Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission : "Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment are common in the majority of law enforcement institutions, and at least ...
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• List Of The Dead In The Course Of Operation Cast Lead

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 545
  This is a comprehensive 101 page list of the casualties massacred during Operation Cast Lead: The unsubstantiated genocide of Palestinian civilians during late December - early January. The list documents the age,sex,occupation,location of the causalities and their names. We have seen the bodies and heard the ...
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• The Guantanamo Lawyers: Shipwrecked

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 727
  By Baher Azmy This important new book tells the story of the world’s most famous prison from the perspective of the lawyers who toiled under notoriously difficult conditions on behalf of the detainees. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 20, 2009 Battlefield in the War of Ideas November 20, 2009 ...
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• Cambodia set for final arguments in KRouge jail chief trial (AFP)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 167
  AFP – Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge war crimes court on Monday begins final arguments in its first trial, bringing the regime’s prison chief closer to justice for the “Killing Fields” atrocities 30 years ago. Excerpt from: (AFP)"> (AFP)">Cambodia set for final arguments in KRouge jail chief ...
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• Why Does the Inky Keep Publishing John Yoo the Torturer?

  
  Brendan Calling — Authority: 471
  John Yoo Doesn’t Want the 9/11 suspects tried in New York : Ownership of the disastrous decision to try al-Qaeda leaders in New York City federal court is the one clear thing to emerge so far from the Obama administration. The call was not made “on the whims or the desires of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” the ...
  15 hours ago

• Natynczyk speaks and raises more questions

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 545
  Just a brief post here to pass along two items on the issue of the governments handling of Afghan torture allegations. This CP report makes news in that General Natynczyk, the Chief of Defence Staff, is disclosing for the first time that the transfers of detainees were halted more than once, in contrast to what the ...
  17 hours ago

• If Colvins Testimony is so "unbelievable" ...

  
  The Cracked Crystal Ball II — Authority: 421
  Then we should be asking some really tough questions of Defense Minister Mackay in light of his top Generals recent comments . "We indeed did stop the transfer more than one time," he said. "At the same time, I dont want to throw out more information. Theres a process thats undergoing and I know that the witnesses ...
  19 hours ago

• An article every American should read…and a prayer

  
  Vox Nova — Authority: 507
  There are some pretty scary statistics contained in AlterNet’s 15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams. A sample:1) The inequality of wealth in the United States is soaring to an unprecedented level. The U.S. already had the highest inequality of wealth in the industrialized world prior to the ...
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• Repatriation of Gitmo Yemenis: US Concerned Over Rehab Arrangements

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 476
  Al Jazeera reports : Yemen is struggling with the possible release of the largest group of detainees at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The release of more than 90 Yemenis still being held at the facility may be delayed due to US fears that Yemen does not have the capacity to ensure the men ...
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• Arars lawyer: Afghan torture a case of deja-vu.

  
  KenonCanpolitics — Authority: 128
  The vicious attack by Peter MacKay on Richard Colvin is truly alarming. MacKay strikes me as worse than his Reform Party comrades. Not only is he a promise breaker but he tries to discredit a civil servant just for blowing the whistle. It is clear that the government did know that something was going on since they had ...
  23 hours ago

• ‘Israel Beiteinu Will Staunchly Oppose Interim Palestinian State’

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 545
  Israel Beiteinu will “staunchly oppose” the creation of “an interim Palestinian state,” Israeli Foreign Minister and party leader Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday amid rumors that the government was pushing for an interim agreement. “The issue has not been discussed in any forum … I fervently hope it’s a ...
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• Making a difference

  
  lovable liberal — Authority: 138
  Click image for full Doonesbury by G.B. Trudeau.
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