SCLG2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Black Site, Zero Dark Thirty, Counter-Terrorism
1 Dec 2018
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No-one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Organisation of american states inter-american convention to prevent and punish torture (dec 1985). Torture shall also be understood to be the use of methods upon a person to obliterate the personality of the victim or to diminish his physical or mental anguish. ". Post september 11 torture redefined: involves secret interrogation of prisoners using extreme cruelty to the point of threatening death to extract confessions. Torture on the increase, also redefined (march 2017 comments) https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=zdqtm6eqtu8. Counter terror with justice" : the so-called war on terror has led to an erosion of a whole host of human rights. States are resorting to practices which have long been prohibited by international law, and have sought to justify them in the name of national security. The validity of the absolute prohibition itself has been challenged by the actions of governments around the world. " http://www. amnesty. org/en/stoptorture.
