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Time to Stop 'Stress and Duress'

Date: May 13, 2004
Author: Kenneth Roth
QUOTE: The sexual humiliation of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison is so shocking that it risks overshadowing other U.S. interrogation practices that are also reprehensible.

ABSTRACT: In this editorial, Mr. Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, argues that the US should end all forms of “stress and duress” interrogation tactics. He argues that these techniques are contrary to international law, and that they are not useful. He also states that the prison abuse in Abu Ghraib should not blind us from “stress and duress” techniques, because the later are more widespread in the military than the former.

--- Kyle Boelte

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