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Showing Original Post only (View all)No Exceptional Circumstances Whatsoever... May Be Invoked as a Justification of Torture [View all]
UN (Geneva) CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (to which the U.S. is a signatory)Article 2-
1) No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.
2) An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture.
from the 2013 Issue Brief for the Human Rights Council (HRC)
Responding to Accusations of Torture by the United States at Guantanamo Bay:
There are no documented examples of a terrorist attack revealed or thwarted by information recovered through torture. Successful interrogations were reportedly achieved at Guantanamo, but these relied on conventional interrogation practices stressing interrogator empathy and relationship.
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No Exceptional Circumstances Whatsoever... May Be Invoked as a Justification of Torture [View all]
bigtree
Aug 2014
OP
But..but..what if your neighbor's parakeet had a nuclear bomb hidden in his cage and...
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2014
#1
What if you are working hard and under enormous pressure, can that be invoked as justification? n/t
PoliticAverse
Aug 2014
#5
Good point, the Geneva Convention doesn't say "enhanced interrogation" is illegal.
rhett o rick
Aug 2014
#35
*Every one* needs to go back and study the Torture Memos and how Bushco made torture legal.
Lars39
Aug 2014
#21
Ditto. Bigtree and I don't see eye to eye on many things, but on this we're in complete agreement.
RufusTFirefly
Aug 2014
#27
What if it's just "folks"? Torturers, torturees... Can't we just let bygones be bygones?
lumberjack_jeff
Aug 2014
#59