Torture is a crime and those responsible must be brought to justice

[manjida]

“Under the UN convention against torture, no exceptional circumstances whatsoever can be invoked to justify torture, and all those responsible for authorising or carrying out torture or other ill-treatment must be fully investigated.”

“The United States is obligated under both the Geneva convention and the convention against torture … to investigate and prosecute the commission of torture.”

President Obama has cooled on commitments made during the 2008 election campaign to pursue criminal investigations if it were proved that “there were high officials who knowingly, consciously broke existing laws, engaged in coverups of those crimes with knowledge forefront”.

[Ferdousi Begum]

What about mental torture?