"It is a history marked by violence and disease and deprivation.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

The ICRC report says that all 14 detainees were subjected to sleep deprivation, beatings and suffocation with water, and that all of them were repeatedly smashed against the wall.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

The Bush administration strenuously defended so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" like sleep deprivation to obtain information from detainees, and admitted to harsher treatment, like the simulated drowning technique called water boarding, that was used in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24