International Law

Torture: What torture?

By John Hirst

If I was being generous this case may be an argument to support Jacqui Smith's call for the detention limit to be extended to 42 days. And even that might not be long enough. Al-Qahtani was interrogated in Guantanamo Bay for 48 days. It is arguable that it is cruel and unusual punishment in itself. Rather conveniently, any evidence that he may have been tortured has been erased when the US Military wiped the video tapes of the interrogation.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).