| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:'UK Lives Saved by Waterboarding' | |
| Posted by: | Jonathan Bingham | |
| Date/Time: | 10/11/10 16:24:00 |
| As far as I know the intelligence services generally manage to find out the info they need without torture, or I am sure we would have heard about it, so these escalating scenarios about saving the panet by pulling out someone's fingernails are just so much hot air. And although there are calls (although I'm not sure who from) to detain suspects for longer, there are no calls to allow torture. As for the legal stuff there is a UN convention on torture which says that: For the purposes of this Convention, torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions. The UK are signatories, but not the US (no surprise there then). |