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    INTERROGATIONS Abu Ghraib‚ Iraq & Guantanamo Bay‚ Cuba Prepared By: Veronica Mihajlovic Diana Sellars Aaron Wilson GM520 Legal‚ Political‚ and Ethical Dimensions of Business Table of Contents Introduction 1 United States Constitution 1 Geneva Convention 2 Third Convention 3 Enemy Prisoner of War 3 Retained Personnel 3 Fourth Convention 3 Protected Persons 3 Guantanamo Bay 4 Memorandums 5 Abu Ghraib 6 Uniform Code of Military Justice 9 Conspiracy 9 Cruelty and

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    custody. Through custodial torture‚ custodial deaths and other forms of human rights violation in police custody abuses‚ no static steps have been have been taken so far for a pennanent solution. Since conviction rate is considered as the yardstick to measure the ability of an investigating police officer‚ every police officer would try to accomplish the maximum conviction rate to his credit by hook or crook. This will definitely help to increase the rate of police torture. It is really pathetic that

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    over the eighth amendment. In my opinion‚ there was most definitely a violation of the eighth amendment‚ I do not condone torture in any sense and consider not only despicable and disgraceful on American soil‚ but unconstitutional‚ and the treatment of Private Manning falls under this position. Being forced naked and in isolation for such extended periods of time is torture. Torture is cruel and‚ most definitely‚ unusual punishment especially considering the non-severity of Private Manning’s

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    Torture’s Terrible Toll is a much more persuasive essay because McCain‚ rather than the essay‚ The case of torture by Michael Levin. McCain’s essay describes his own personal experience in describing how torture is very useless. That he has seen/ had to go through the pain and agony through his own point of view. However‚ Levin uses hypothetical cases on why torture is beneficial. In the case of Torture‚ Michael Levin gives an ineffective example discussing a terrorist threatening to throw an atomic bomb

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    post war life couldn’t be so powerful and redeeming. There are so many great plot lines in this book: the rise of Zamperini as an Olympic athlete‚ his heroism towards his colleagues while on a raft for 27 days‚ his courage in the camps despite the torture‚ but his greatness really showed when he was able to transcend his pain and its incumbent bitterness to turn his own life around. This was the most gripping part of the book for me because most people would have acted very differently than Louie if

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    study entitled‚ "TORTYUR: Human Rights Violations During The Marcos Regime‚" elaborated the different kinds of torture used by authorities‚ most probably the military officers‚ during this dark chapter in Philippine history‚ as recounted by victims and published in different reports (Hapal‚ 2016). According to Michael Chua as cited by Hapal (2016)‚ there are forms of torture done to the victims during the martial law and these are: …electric shock‚ where electric wires are attached to the victim’s

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    there were various types of torture that were both cruel and unusual. There were also many cases of victims losing their mind while in captivity. One of the most important questions in The Pit and the Pendulum was that if all of this was even happening to the individual in the story or if they were just dreaming of events that might come to be. The Inquisitor-General would do anything to convert a person to Catholicism; if simply asking didn’t work‚ various forms of torture were used to convert them

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    include witnesses‚ victims and suspects of a crime. The case studies‚ researches and surveys show that the interrogation may incorporate different array of techniques and tools which may range from developing a empathy with the subject to complete to torture[1]. According to recent researches and surveys‚ the enhanced interrogation techniques are considered as the most used techniques in the department of police‚ military and investigation. Enhanced interrogation techniques are referred as the alternative

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    "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength" (Orwell 6). The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell demonstrates a dystopian society with negative and unrealistic messages. Such messages are a reality in the modern Republic of Uzbekistan. The social control enforced by the government of both Oceania and of Uzbekistan eliminates all privacy of their people. Individual consciousness is replaced by collective conformity‚ disallowing individualism to be expressed. While the mock dictatorships

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    capital punishment

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    punishment also known as the death penalty uses techniques that undermine humanity. When undertaking capital punishment‚ the process involves hanging‚ firing bullets‚ slaughter‚ inducing death through drugs and any other way causes psychological torture and physical pain. Humanity requires that people treat others with dignity they deserve even when they have done mistakes. Capital punishment does not have any form of dignity. The whole process functions more of a revenge rather than punishment. 

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