Mark Danner, The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means. The New York Review of Books, 30 April 2009. “Working through the forty-three pages of the International Committee of the Red Cross’s report [of February 2007], one finds a strikingly detailed account of horrors inflicted on fourteen ‘high-value detainees’ over a period of weeks and months—horrors that Red Cross officials conclude, quite unequivocally, ‘constituted torture.'”
April 30, 2009
The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means
April 30, 2009 Filed Under: Law, National Security, Terrorism, Torture, War/War crimes Tagged With: army field manual for human intelligence collector operations, cruel and inhuman and degrading treatment, dick cheney, geneva conventions, george w. bush, guantánamo, international committee of the red cross (icrc) report on abu ghraib, international committee of the red cross report on the treatment of fourteen 'high value detainees' in cia custody, myth of the 'ticking bomb', taguba report of 2004