Abu Faraj Film Analysis
Claims
1.They got a lot of garbage information during their whole detainee program.
When you over pressurize a suspect of terrorist, there is a more than 50- 50 probability that you get garbage information in the sense wrong information. Sometimes over torture makes the suspect to speak what the interrogator wants to hear rather than speaking the truth. As seen in the movie, when john comes to know that Abu Faraj is closest courier boy that directly reports to Osama bin Laden. Because this is what john wanted to know all the time but this was wrong. That detainee spoke this just not to suffer anymore. Detainee went for quantity of pleasure rather than going for quality according to Bentham and Mills’ theory2.
2.Human rights were violated during interrogation. …show more content…
As seen in the movie as well as in real life, their right to a fair trial was violated. They did not give the detainees to appear in a fair trial. They just started interrogating the suspects if they even found a normal evidence without verifying it! Like that can be a coincidence also! This all is clearly shown when the john interrogates a detainee in starting of the movie. He went on till stripping detainee’s clothes down too! They didn’t give the detainees food and water too for a quite a long time which was certainly against the humanity. Their freedom of association was also
1.They got a lot of garbage information during their whole detainee program.
When you over pressurize a suspect of terrorist, there is a more than 50- 50 probability that you get garbage information in the sense wrong information. Sometimes over torture makes the suspect to speak what the interrogator wants to hear rather than speaking the truth. As seen in the movie, when john comes to know that Abu Faraj is closest courier boy that directly reports to Osama bin Laden. Because this is what john wanted to know all the time but this was wrong. That detainee spoke this just not to suffer anymore. Detainee went for quantity of pleasure rather than going for quality according to Bentham and Mills’ theory2.
2.Human rights were violated during interrogation. …show more content…
As seen in the movie as well as in real life, their right to a fair trial was violated. They did not give the detainees to appear in a fair trial. They just started interrogating the suspects if they even found a normal evidence without verifying it! Like that can be a coincidence also! This all is clearly shown when the john interrogates a detainee in starting of the movie. He went on till stripping detainee’s clothes down too! They didn’t give the detainees food and water too for a quite a long time which was certainly against the humanity. Their freedom of association was also