A US court has for the first time ordered that two psychologists face trial for devising the CIA’s torture techniques.
The lawsuit was brought by three victims who were detained in a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan in 2003. The victims said they were deprived of sleep, forced to endure extreme heat and subjected to water-boarding while in prison. The psychologists are accused of designing and promoting the enhanced interrogation methods. The United Nations’ 19-84 Convention against Torture, to which the U-S government is a signatory, has forbidden any acts by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for obtaining information or a confession.
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