U.S. Torture and Abuse of Detainees“No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”—The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 5 (1948)
Each day brings more information about the appalling abuses inflicted upon men and women held by the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the world. U.S. forces have used interrogation techniques including hooding, stripping detainees naked, subjecting them to extremes of heat, cold, noise and light, and depriving them of sleep—in violation of the Geneva Conventions.....more
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