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The Pros And Cons Of Torture

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Do you know torture even in 2016 is still practiced by 81 governments as an interrogation technique and also in other ways. When 9/11 happened and the United States detained people to find the person behind those attacks, all of those people had one thing in common they're religion. All of the detainees in Guantanamo bay detention camp were all Muslim. At the time of 13th February 2004 775 detainees were present. 99% of whom were innocent men. Who just like you and I were living a normal life but one day they were captured and next thing you know they're in a interrogation room. All of those men have experienced torture at some point of being detained in guantanamo bay. Torture can be sexually, mentally, physically. All the detainees have experienced …show more content…

In the 1949 United Nations Universal Declaration Of Human Rights it specifically states in article 5 “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Which means no one has the right to torture any human being regardless of their religion, sexuality gender or race.Another International law that the United States violates the Geneva convention of 1949 and Protocols I and II added in 1977 which states that you can't torture someone captured in armed conflicts whether it's international or domestic. The Geneva Convention also applies to prisoners. One of the reasons that detainees in Guantanamo Bay are called detainees is because if they're called prisoners the Geneva convention will apply to them. But people still experience torture in Guantanamo bay. An example of it would be force feeding detainees who choose not to eat because they're fighting for their basic rights that the United nations universal declaration of human rights guarantees them but unfortunately the United States has taken those away from them for nothing. The United States acknowledges on their website “Hold governments accountable to their obligations under universal human rights norms and international human rights instruments;” and “Promote greater respect for human rights, including freedom from torture,” But is the United States not using torture because they said ‘freedom from torture,” and are they being accountable for all the lives that have been tortured and are being tortured. No they're not and they still are using torture. In conclusion the United States is just telling you bullshit so they look good and at the same time they're using

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About two years ago, a C.I.A. torture report was released, the subject on detainees captured after September 11, who were suspected to be linked to the attack. One of the more famous detainees, Majid Khan, who had been afflicted with Al Qaeda, was captured in 2003 and was held at Guantanamo Bay since 2006. He says that the interrogators waterboarded him twice, was moved among series of C.I.A. operated “black sites” over some months, and the torture still continued. He was beaten repeatedly, hung from a wooden beam for three days, and shackled and starved. He was even submerged in an ice bath, the transparent ice burning his skin like fire, slowly numbing his body.

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Most controversial was the US’s use of Guantanamo Bay for harsh and inhumane torture (Mayer). For the first time in US history, the government allowed for the psychological & physical torture of captives (Mayer). First, this undermines the eighth amendment which makes cruel and unusual punishment illegal (Madison). Secondly, this undermines the sixth amendment guaranteeing the right to a trial. How are captives being tortured, a cruel and unusual punishment, without a trial?

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The torturers deprive them of sleep because sleep deprivation reduces the individual’s resistance of pain (“Torture” para. 4). Another way Guantanamo Bay tortures its people is by having the person watch someone else be tortured. It is said to have the same mental effects of actually being tortured (“Torture” para. 16). Now George Mason and Patrick Henry made sure that they made a Bill of Rights because they hated the idea of torture. It is quite obvious the Founding Fathers were against the idea of torture (Cole para.

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Torture is mainly seen as morally wrong. The Los Angeles Times wrote about what the readers think about torture. In the article Torture is wrong: Readers agree, even if most Americans might not, discusses the opinions of their readers on how morally wrong torture can be even if it’s to a terrorist. One of the responses on the Los Angeles Times was from Martin Wauson of Westminster saying, “Injuring or killing an informant defeats the purpose of interrogation” (Los Angeles Times). The point of interrogating a terrorist is to gain information on what ever the problem may be.

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Prisoners were held captive and punished in corrupt ways such as “sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick, and using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack” (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/10/torture-at-abu-ghraib). This occurrence in Iraq at Abu Ghraib shows that abuse in prisons can ensue at any point in time, regardless of the cautious measures taken. This is a prevalent issue in our society that even changes to the law will not prevent these issues from happening

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In its confines, lie at least 169 prisoners who hope to challenge their confinement under Hebeas Corpus. The prisoners of Guantanamo Bay hope to have their petitions granted, however, due to them being aliens and not being placed on US soil, these petitions are not granted and it was decided that the prisoners of Guantanamo don 't even have the right to petition the courts. Under the Detainee Treatment Act, the prisoners aren’t given the rights to petition the courts and they eliminated those actions with this act. This act was passed in 2005, however, under the Military Commissions Act, detainees are given a chance to plead their case, which tend to be about allegations of war crimes and to determine if an individual is an enemy combatant.

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Guantanamo Bay: The Double Standard That is America “Human rights are the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights are the very soul of our sense of nationhood”. Jimmy Carter. If we analyze Jimmy Carters Quote then we can see that he is 100 percent correct. Human rights are the soul of our foreign policy, whether it’s intervening in Myanmar or in Syria when Bashar Al-Assad used chemical weapons on the Syrian rebel groups. When we look further we see the US only does this because it is what we stand for as a country, duo process, equal rights, and religious freedom.

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Torture is exceptionally inhumane, unnecessary, and prisoners at GITMO have permanent disablement because of it. First, as one can see, the ways that the detainees were tortured was entirely brutal. Al-Zamil, a former prisoner at Guantanamo, stated that the guards “‘Used to [go] into [his] cell and force [him] to walk out by beating [him]’” (Al-Zamil). As well as beatings, there were well known methods of torture used, like the Iron Maiden.

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Reports from the Red Cross, other organisations and released prisoners show that detainees are often subject to violent interrogation and torture, whereas the United States administration argues that the activities they are conducting are legal and do not breach any human rights. (Ratner, M. and Ray, E. 2004). Presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama have often defended accusations and reports claiming that inhuman techniques have

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On September 20th, 2001 nine days after the Twin Towers President George W. Bush announced to all Americans that the nation has begun the war on terror. With any war there will be casualties as well as prisoners captured who have essential information to saving lives. Some of the prisoners caught were considered extremely dangerous and sent to Guantanamo Bay. At one point in the war on terror Guantanamo Bay held some of the worlds highest-ranking criminals in the world. Many people questioned the government’s legitimacy of holding these prisoners and believed they should be given the right to a fair trial.

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Persepolis is a graphic novel that follows the true account of a young Marjane Satrapi, as she comes of age during one of history 's most dramatic times, the Iranian Revolution. In my opinion however, the beauty of this literary work lies in the way that Marji brings normalcy into her messed up experiences during wartime. The way that the author relates her experiences to the reader is unlike anything I’ve ever read before, and the reader can’t help but laugh and cry with her along the way. In the chapter called “Kim Wilde”, Marji’s parents finally got passports when the border opened up after years of being shut down during the revolution.

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Guantanamo Bay detention camp should be shut down for violating amendments 1, 4, 8, and 9. To begin, Guantanamo Bay violates the right of no torturing or degrading treatment. Article five of the Universal declaration of human rights states that “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” But, in 2007 an FBI report was released on what exactly goes on at GITMO. The files contained information on the types of torture and how the detainees are treated.

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Instead, the United States does not consider these people prisoners because they do not want them to be afforded the rights under the United States law and Constitution. These laws state that in the United States of America it is illegal to torture or mistreat prisoners. Detainees, who are placed in facilities like Guantanamo Bay, are subjected to punishments that range from limiting or overly

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This is similar to our CIA society today, For torture to happened it can not happen on U.S soil. It must happen some place else.

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Torture is universally prohibited in both national and International law worldwide. It is a fundamental violation of human rights that cannot be derogated from. Essentially, torture is said to constitute any physical and mental act by which severe pain or suffering is intentionally inflicted upon a person ( UNCAT).Torture is mainly used for purposes that are set out to degraded, embarrass, and induce destruction in the person being subjected to torture and those in close relation to the person being tortured .Torture is a mechanism used by those in authoritative positions to preserve themselves in power (Power, 2006:2). Despite the universal prohibition on torture, its use has been widespread throughout history, and especially of late in the wake of September 11 2001 and other recent terrorist atrocities to combat the aforementioned heinous terrorist attacks.

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