Previously secret military files reveal links between the use of torture by British forces in Oman and Northern Ireland during the 1970s.
Previously secret military files reveal links between the use of torture by British forces in Oman and Northern Ireland during the 1970s.
The article is about interrogation techniques that were not torture at the time and now are.
the article is about instances of torture and how their legal category has changed in the torturer country
So what was it prior to the change?
torture, what part of this is difficult for you? even the article calls it torture.
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.
you cannot be this dense. it was torture. it’s still torture. laws dont define reality.
Laws literally define what torture is. How could it be enforced otherwise? How could they create coercive techniques that avoided it being torture?
no, the word torture has a meaning independent of the laws of the day. it’s been fairly stable for a long time.
also, why do they need to create “coercive techniques” (methods of torture)?