Recently declassified documents on the Bush administration interrogation program describe several techniques used on detainees in US custody, some of which may have violated the United Nations Convention Against Torture, to which the United States is a signatory.
The “purpose” of the abdominal slap is defined in the documents as being “to instill fear and despair, to punish selective behavior and to instill humiliation or cause insult.”
Dozens of students at the University of Mississippi gathered this week to protest against Israel’s war...
With the Biden administration days away from issuing its opinion on whether Israel is violating...
