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To: E who wrote (134011)	5/23/2004 10:35:33 AM
From: blue red	Respond to of 281500

>About wires: Stun guns have been used, Wires have been used to shock prisoners, as well.

To: E who wrote (134011)	5/23/2004 10:48:28 AM
From: blue red	Respond to of 281500

Here’s a passage from Susan Sontag’s article in the Sunday NYT magazine on definitions of torture in international treaties. I’ve seen the Geneva Conventions definition too, and it is similar. Let Nadine explain all this away. nytimes.com "Here is one of the definitions of torture contained in a convention to which the United States is a signatory: ''any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession.'' (The definition comes from the 1984 Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Similar definitions have existed for some time in customary law and in treaties, starting with Article 3 -- common to the four Geneva conventions of 1949 -- and many recent human rights conventions.) The 1984 convention declares, ''No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.'' And all covenants on torture specify that it includes treatment intended to humiliate the victim, like leaving prisoners naked in cells and corridors."