Comment on When Britain used torture to control the Strait of Hormuz
deHaga@feddit.uk 21 hours agoThe 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.
huf@hexbear.net 21 hours ago
this is not a court of law. we’re capable of recognising torture without your precious courts defining it for us.
deHaga@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
But incapable of understanding nuance
huf@hexbear.net 21 hours ago
nuance is when you refuse to even recognise torture because the torturers hadnt yet decided to call it torture.
deHaga@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
It was classified as torture by the UN in 1984.