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WWII
The US tortured German POWs during the war at a secret camp, "P. O. Box 1142," outside Washington D.C. -
Writing laws against torture in the UNCAT
In this convention they were talking about torture which was then adopted and was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1984. The text was turned into articles that came into force on 26 June 1987. The text contains a definition for torture in Article 1, laws prohibiting torture in article 2, article 3 prohibits parties from returning or extraditing any person to a state where he/she would be in danger of being subjected to torture. -
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Torture during Al-Qaeda vs. US
Abu Zubaydah was captured in Pakistanand was sent into CIA custody which interrogated him using coercive interrogation techniques and waterboarding him over 80 times. -
Daniel Levin reauthorizes waterboarding
Daniel Levin, new acting head of OLC writes a letter to the CIA reauthorizing the use of waterboarding. -
NYT report
The New York Times reports that three detainees where killed during in Afghanistan and Iraq by CIA agents/contractors. -
Detainee Treatment Act
Congress passes the Detainee Treatment Act which prohibits the inhumane treatment of prisoners and other things, but Bush signs another thing which states that this act doesn't pertain to the Al-Qaeda US war. -
Bush v. Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008
President Bush vetoes the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, which would have limited CIA interrogations to techniques authorized by the Army Field Manual. -
President Obama on torture
President Obama issues an executive order which revokes Bush’s Executive Order on interrogations and limits the techniques used by government officers. -
Egypt and torture
Egypt has used torture for a very long time now, especially under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's control. Under his control the regular police and National Security officers routinely torture political detainees with many different techniques. This was just one of those cases as “Khaled,” a 29-year-old accountant was detained and questioned. He was told to admit to participating in arson attacks on police cars the previous year, which he denied which prompted many sessions of torture. -
Chicago torture incident
A mentally disabled white man in Chicago, Illinois, was filmed being physically and verbally abused by four black individuals. Was labeled as modern torture. -
Trump on Torture
Multiple news outlets report on Trump's stance on torture according to what he said in the presidential debate stating that he thinks that torture definitely works and that waterboarding isn't considered torture.
