Human rights activists say psychological torture was a common practice in Guantánamo. The United States has no point in trying to redefine torture to exclude psychological torture, which appears to inflict the same kind of long-term mental damage as physical abuse, a study released Monday, March 5, said.
"Ill treatment during captivity, such as psychological manipulations, humiliating treatment, and forced stress positions, does not seem to be substantially different from physical torture in terms of the severity of mental suffering they cause", the study's authors wrote in the journal of the Archives of General Psychiatry, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). (MORE)
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"Ill treatment during captivity, such as psychological manipulations, humiliating treatment, and forced stress positions, does not seem to be substantially different from physical torture in terms of the severity of mental suffering they cause", the study's authors wrote in the journal of the Archives of General Psychiatry, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). (MORE)
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1173087753180&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
Please also see:
Americans Have Lost Their Country
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17216.htm
America on its Knees Before Tyranny
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17231.htm