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…one of the first things I did was to ban some of the extraordinary interrogation techniques that are the subject of that report. Whew, thanks Obama! Im glad we dont torture anymore! Force-feeding is torture and breaks international law, the UNs human rights office said Wednesday, as 100 of the 166 detainees at Guantanamo Bay continue a months-long hunger strike. - [Agence France Presse, 5/2/2013] The Guantánamo Bay prison has adopted a new forced-feeding policy that rhetorically recasts the year-long hunger strike in the remote prison camps as “long term non-religious fasting.” The Pentagon disclosed the rebranding effort Tuesday with the release of a 24-page how-to document developed by the prison camps in December. - [miamiherald, 3/11/2014] …a close reading of Department of Defense documents and investigations by numerous human rights agencies have shown that the current Army Field Manual itself uses techniques that are abusive and can even amount to torture. - [theguardian, 1/25/2014]
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 03:15:04 +0000

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