Monday, Dec 22nd
Last update09:35:06 AM GMT
Human Rights Bush’s interrogators used slaps to ‘instill fear and despair’
Recently declassified documents on the Bush administration interrogation program describe several techniques used on detainees in US custody, some of which may have violated the United Nations Convention Against Torture, to which the United States is a signatory.
The “purpose” of the abdominal slap is defined in the documents as being “to instill fear and despair, to punish selective behavior and to instill humiliation or cause insult.”
 Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out widespread violations across the occupied West... |
 A leading Muslim civil rights group in the US has sued Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor,... | ||
 Last Tuesday afternoon, Dean Andrea Baccarelli at the Harvard School of Public Health sent out a... |
 At dawn on Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces escalated their invasions across multiple areas of the occupied... |
