I draw your attention to the 3rd Geneva Convention, Part III, Sections I and II. Various - and specific - requirements for treatment of individuals are outlined there-in; any treatment of idividuals that falls 'outside' these specific requirements is torture.
Jason, do your own look-ups.
Article 25 is generally considered one of the main prohibitions against solitary confinement.
adherence to the specifics of Article 38 prevents prisoner isolation.
Solitary confinement is torture, dude. If I had my choise of how they were going to torture me, I'd pick a week of solitary before a half hour of volts to the nutz, but I'd pick an hour of volts to the nutz before a month in the hole. you, obviously, have no idea...
you'd be crying for your mama after 3 days, tuff guy.
Not torture?!? what an ass-inine comment!
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Re: Torture???
a POW with personal experience of 'why I think solitary sucks' is an "incompetent authority?"
so... how can I put this nicely, and constructively...
yer a moron.
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Jason, do your own look-ups.
Article 25 is generally considered one of the main prohibitions against solitary confinement.
adherence to the specifics of Article 38 prevents prisoner isolation.
Re: OMG!
you'd be crying for your mama after 3 days, tuff guy.
Not torture?!? what an ass-inine comment!
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