Comment on When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz

• deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz

  The headline is wrong. They used interrogation techniques.

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  • huf@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    oh wow, you’re going with the “enhanced interrogation” bullshit? how’s it feel to be a torture defender?

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    • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not defending anything.

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      • huf@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        yes you are, and now you’re lying about it too

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  • nohaybanda@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Roman Inquisition used torture as an interrogation technique. Those are overlapping categories and can both apply to the same thing separately. And I sincerely doubt that it’s autism that’s giving you so much trouble here

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    • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The 5 Techniques were standard British military interrogation methods. There was public outcry after they were used in Northern Ireland in the 70s and were then banned and made illegal.

      They were then reclassified as torture by the echr in 1976. That was appealed, successfully, and classified as not torture in 1978

      The UN classified them as torture in 1984.

      So, the UK did not use torture to control the strait of Hormuz, but did use those techniques illegally in Northern Ireland.

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      • huf@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        this is not a court of law. we’re capable of recognising torture without your precious courts defining it for us.

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