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

• huf@hexbear.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not defending anything.

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    • huf@hexbear.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Quote me where I defended anything. It was not considered torture at the time.

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• nohaybanda@hexbear.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        But incapable of understanding nuance

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