cruel inhuman and degrading treatment

The New York Times’ front-page story Sunday reporting the unanimous agreement among Justice Department lawyers that the “harsh” interrogation techniques approved by the Office of Legal Counsel for use by the CIA were legal relies on the classic journalistic “battle of the experts”: one “outside” expert says the CIA interrogation techniques like slamming, sleep and food [...]

New research finds that the psychological impact of captivity in a hostile environment, deprivation of basic needs such as food and sleep, isolation, psychological manipulation and other “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” is actually more damaging psychologically than is physical torture.
Science Daily reports the findings of Dr. Metin Başoğlu, Head of Section of Trauma Studies [...]