The U.S. Justice Department publicly condemned the use of torture during interrogation in 2004.
It's not very different from trying to comprehend a foreign language, which is torture to dyslexics.
He said Jordanian law bans the use of torture and reliance on statements extracted under duress.
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Ten years ago Bahrain forswore torture and set up a parliament, albeit with few powers.
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Whether in Walpole or Beirut or Hanoi, all human beings experience isolation as torture.
An ethical interrogation is one that does not involve abuse or torture, Mills said.
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The U.S. Army field manual classifies sustained sleep deprivation as a form of mental torture.
Amnesty is appealing to governments and public opinion to put an end to torture.
That judicial opposition to torture evidence didn't just spring from the European Convention of Human Rights.
Reports by the National Media Council said Dubai police denied any torture had taken place.
It is paired with another case involving the 1993 Torture Victims Protection Act.
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The Feinstein letters cited Mr. Panetta's past statements about torture to criticize the film.
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It was also recognized for decades in the United States as an illegal form of torture.
His great concern was to try to protect his parishioners from arrest and possible torture.
Mr. Gramajo was accused of torture by human-rights groups and his U.S. visa was eventually revoked.
"They endured torture, " said Dr Feriha Peracha, the softly spoken psychologist who runs the school.
Politicians of all parties have insisted that torture plays no part in British security policy.
Government lawyers had stressed that Jordan had banned torture and the use in trial of statements extracted under duress.
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That treaty included a guarantee of a fair trial free of torture-tainted evidence for anyone sent back to Jordan.
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It was emotional torture for her, but she refuses to self-aggrandise and plays down her personal suffering.
Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain, however, addressed the question of whether prolonged solitary confinement is torture.
Syeda, who is divorced from Al-Ghamdi, says Lama's torture occurred while she was staying with her father.
Strasbourg said it was unconvinced Jordan's legal guarantees against torture evidence would have "any real practical value".
Torture yourself and look at something like the FSLR Jul 140 call for the past two weeks.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey almost was not confirmed based on his refusal to classify waterboarding as torture.
Unlike ordinary American courts, the commissions can admit as evidence information obtained through coercion (but not torture).
The procession stops fourteen times recalling the scenes of Jesus' torture and crucifixion, known as the Passion of the Christ.
To be charged with torture in the UK a person has to be allied with state forces.
Kumar Lama, 46, is accused of two counts of torture at an army barracks in the Nepalese Kapilvastu.
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