[Sosfbay-discuss] Leaked Red Cross Report on Torture Contains Actionable Language

[Brian Good]

Beginning with the chapter headings on its contents page —
“suffocation by water,” “prolonged stress standing,” “beatings by use
of a collar,” “confinement in a box” — the document makes compelling
and chilling reading. The stories recounted in its fewer than 50 pages
lead inexorably to this unequivocal conclusion, which, given its
source, has the power of a legal determination: “The allegations of ill
treatment of the detainees indicate that, in many cases, the ill
treatment to which they were subjected while held in the C.I.A.
program, either singly or in combination, constituted torture. In
addition, many other elements of the ill treatment, either singly or in
combination, constituted cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.”



Summary: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/opinion/15danner.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&th&emc=th&adxnnlx=1237276955-/sWnxBQO66dZyH/H30vlqQ

Longer article:  http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22530



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