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Dec 10, 2014 · Stress Positions — The purpose of these techniques are to stimulate mild discomfort from extended muscle use, according to a description in a government document obtained by the ACLU.
Dec 4, 2019 · But these newly released drawings depict specific C.I.A. techniques that were approved, described and categorized in memos prepared in 2002 by the Bush administration, and capture the...
Dec 9, 2014 · The report details how accused USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was placed “in a forward facing position (Trendelenburg) with head lower than torso”, whilst undergoing rectal feeding....
In May 2005, in response to requests from the CIA, Bradbury authored several memoranda that confirmed that several so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" did not constitute torture, including waterboarding, walling, stress positions, striking a prisoner, exposure to extreme temperatures, dousing with cold water, and forced sleep ...
Aug 4, 2023 · And the CIA employed stress positions in its notorious torture program after the attacks of 9/11. There were wide reports of use of cramped confinement. One detainee died after being shackled to a wall and forced to sit on a cold concrete floor overnight.
Jul 29, 2017 · Stress positions – the detainee is made to remain in uncomfortable positions for prolonged periods, to stimulate discomfort from extended muscle use. Sleep deprivation – detainees were kept awake...
Dec 1, 2015 · The CIA forced them into painful stress positions that made it impossible for them to lie down or sleep for days, to the point where many hallucinated or begged to be killed to end their misery.
