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    Chinese Interrogations

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    Over a hundred poems have been recorded and they were rediscovered in 1970. During the interrogations that could last up to several days the Chinese were asked about their families‚ and where their village was located in their native country. Due to the language barrier miscommunications were common during the interrogations which led to more deportations. The detainees were held for long periods of times‚ some up to two years and were interrogated repeatedly

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    Interrogation Cases

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    a coma at the hospital. The police at the scene investigated a group of teen’s‚ who were thought to be in a gang. When the police tried to question these individuals‚ they ran. The police gave chase and caught two of them. They are now at our interrogation rooms. My partner has begun to interrogate them about the young woman without the consent of their parents. After some time‚ my partner approaches me and tells me that we have the suspects of the rape and beating of the girl. I knew full well that

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    The Interrogation Room shows the unethical interrogation of witnesses in a murder case at a birthday party that led to conviction of an innocent man. The murder took place in the parking area of the club in Brampton‚ Ontario. While Eric Morgan was celebrating his birthday party‚ Mike Spence was chased and shot by men in a vehicle. Three years later‚ six men with a gang related backgrounds were charged of the murder. But because of rumours‚ the birthday celebrant became the primary suspect. Witnesses

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    Is Torture justified?

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    Composition I November 9‚ 2013 Is Torture justified? What is torture? Basically‚ this is the action of physically or psychologically hurting a person without their permission and against their will. The torture has many goals such as obtaining a confession or information of the victim‚ revenge for an act committed by the victim or just for entertainment morbid and sadistic of the torturer. According to the 1984 United Nations Convention against Torture‚ the torture is: “any act by which severe pain or suffering

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    Torture In Prisons

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    Torture is defined as the action of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something. The Central Intelligence Agency put in place “advanced interrogation techniques” under the Bush Administration after the occurrence of 9/11. These techniques can easily be viewed as a form of torture. A citizen of the United States often agrees with the CIA’s interrogation techniques‚ however‚ one is often under assumption that the CIA has the right detainee in prison‚ the

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    Talking about torture‚ we often refer to those criminals. Few start with mentioning about those interrogators. “We humiliated and degraded [Iraqi prisoners]‚ and ourselves . . . [and] struggled to contain the growing sense that we had shocked our consciences and stained our souls . . . follow[ing] guidelines and obeyed the rules [of interrogation]‚” Eric Fair‚ a civilian contractor for the Department of Defense‚ in the New York Times‚ states. “But with every prisoner forced up against a wall‚ or

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    Justification Of Torture

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    Justification on the Use of Torture for National Security While the idea may seem contradictory‚ countries around the globe use torture as a form of national security. As noted in the works of an online database‚ Opposing Viewpoints‚ reasons originating from the early 1800s in Jean Larteguy’s novel‚ Les Centurions‚ depicts the opposing justification of why such a method is necessary for safety (7). In his novel‚ Larteguy stresses millions of lives were saved because a French soldier tortured an

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    Morality of Torture

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    The moral issue of torture is one that has come under scrutiny by many national and international organizations as of late. To talk about torture one must really understand what torture is. As taken from Dictionary.com "1.a. Infliction or severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion. b. An instrument or a method for inflicting such pain. 2. Excruciating physical or mental pain; agony. 3. Something causing severe pain or anguish." This is just the literal meaning of the word but doesn’t

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    Miller Torture Vs Torture

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    can begin to think and ponder these problems. Torture is agreeably a touchy or disturbing subject for most and is shunned upon or seen as very unusual and taboo. But why is this? The most obvious answer is because torture is the act of causing great pain to someone who can be any sort of prisoner of war‚ a captive‚ arrested criminal‚ ect. But torture can be even further defined to the very core of the problem. Two men wrote on the matter of torture and its justifications‚ and the definition it bears

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    English Writing 101 28 July 2010 To Torture or Not? After the United States suffered terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001‚ the well being of our nation would be of great interest to the Bush Administration. Anything and everything has been done to ensure that such an attack that does not occur on American soil ever again. Our military activity in the Middle East allows us to have the opportunity to catch enemy prisoners and the ability to retrieve valuable information in order to end the

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