{"id":936,"date":"2007-08-04T12:29:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T12:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/cia-techniques-cause-serious-mental-damage\/936\/"},"modified":"2007-08-04T12:29:04","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T12:29:04","slug":"cia-techniques-cause-serious-mental-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/cia-techniques-cause-serious-mental-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA techniques cause serious mental damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.granma.cu\/ingles\/2007\/agosto\/vier3\/CIA-techniques-cause-serious-mental-damage.html\">Granma International<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flamesong.com\">flamesong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interrogation techniques used by the CIA on alleged terrorists can cause serious mental damage and are illegal in the United States, according to a report released Thursday by two non-governmental organizations, Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights First.<\/p>\n<p>The report, titled &#8220;Leave No Marks, \u2018Enhanced\u2019 Interrogation Techniques and the Risk of Criminality,&#8221; was drafted by medical and legal investigators from both groups and based its conclusions on extensive medical documentation and various cases of torture survivors.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers analyzed CIA techniques, which include sensory and sleep deprivation, exposing prisoners to excessive heat and\/or cold for long periods, placing prisoners in &#8220;stress&#8221; (extremely uncomfortable) positions, sexual humiliation and simulated drowning of prisoners via a technique known as &#8220;water-boarding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report found that these practices can cause long-term consequences such as post-traumatic stress disorder, psychosis, substance abuse, and suicide, and for that reason are illegal, the AP reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granma International flamesong Interrogation techniques used by the CIA on alleged terrorists can cause serious mental damage and are illegal in the United States, according to a report released Thursday by two non-governmental organizations, Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights First. The report, titled &#8220;Leave No Marks, \u2018Enhanced\u2019 Interrogation Techniques and the Risk of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16],"tags":[71,32,33,103,38,59,92,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-human-rights","7":"category-war-terrorism","8":"tag-afghanistan","9":"tag-cia","10":"tag-guantanamo","11":"tag-health-news","12":"tag-iraq","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-terrorism","15":"tag-torture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}