一种叫做水刑的审问技巧也很普遍。它是让审问对象经受溺水的感觉。
据悉,中央情报局已同意不再施“水板刑”*,但仍不确定它将采取什么奇术。
尤其是水刑,不管是从道德层面还是从法律层面来看,都让很多干员感到非常苦恼。
有些人还算客气:是否众议院发言人南茜·佩罗西在中情局2002年使用水刑的问题上得到了充分的指点。
奥巴马也勉为其难地对布什的律师提起公诉,控诉他主张waterboarding并不属于拷问因而纵然这一行为。
据我所知,还没有人提议对美联储施以“水刑”(waterboarding)。
最严厉的方法——水刑,或模拟溺水——在被禁用之前,2003年曾在穆罕默德身上有过183次。
1·Thousands of documented confessions found in the prison archives show he was the man who made prisoners talk by using means such as electrocution, waterboarding, merciless beatings and mutilations.
在监狱档案中发现的数以千计的招供文件显示,他就是那个用包括电刑、水刑、毫不留情的殴打和致残等手段使犯人开口的人。
2·These techniques include facial slaps, sleep deprivation, walling - where their padded heads are banged against walls - confinement in boxes, and waterboarding or simulated drowning.
这些强化审讯的技术包括打耳光、剥夺睡眠、裹着头套撞墙、在笼子里关禁闭、水刑以及模拟溺水。
3·But one of the most common forms of torture in the modern world, incomparably more widespread than waterboarding or electric shocks, is inflicted by mothers on daughters they love.
但是,当下最常见的一种折磨,却是母亲对自己挚爱的女儿痛下毒手。这种现象远比水刑和电击更为普遍。
4·Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, was reportedly briefed on the CIA's plans for waterboarding and other controversial techniques in 2002, and raised no qualms.
众议院的南希·佩洛西在2002年简要上报了中情局水刑和其他有争议的质询手段,并没有受到质疑。
5·Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi captured in Pakistan in March 2002, was subjected to waterboarding 83 times in August 2002.
而2002年3月在巴基斯坦被捕的沙特人阿布·祖巴耶达赫在2002年8月遭受了83次水刑。