Previously secret military files reveal links between the use of torture by British forces in Oman and Northern Ireland during the 1970s.

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        14 days ago

        The article is about interrogation techniques that were not torture at the time and now are.

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          14 days ago

          the article is about instances of torture and how their legal category has changed in the torturer country

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                14 days ago

                So it wasn’t torture, then it became torture? Seems contradictory. Perhaps you should stick to the legal definition of the time, otherwise it makes discussing the subject impossible.

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                    Laws literally define what torture is. How could it be enforced otherwise? How could they create coercive techniques that avoided it being torture?