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Bookmark or Share- What is Waterboarding? - American Civil Liberties UnionWaterboarding, or "water torture," is a brutal practice whereby an interrogator straps a prisoner to a board, places a wet rag in his mouth, and by pouring water through the rag induces controlled drowning.
- Waterboarding - WikipediaWaterboarding is a form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the person to experience the sensation of drowning. In the most common method of waterboarding, the captive's face is covered with cloth or some other thin material and immobilized on their back at ...
- Waterboarding Definition & Meaning - Merriam-WebsterThe meaning of WATERBOARDING is an interrogation technique usually regarded as a form of torture in which water is forced into a detainee's mouth and nose so as to induce the sensation of drowning.
- USA and Torture: A History of Hypocrisy | Human Rights WatchHuman Rights Watch’s 2011 report Getting Away with Torture details the numerous times US courts found that waterboarding, or variations of it, constitutes torture and is a war crime. Examples ...
- What is waterboarding, and who believes it works?Now known colloquially as waterboarding, the tactic has hopscotched across conflicts and cultures. Once again, it has made the leap from medieval parchments to TV screens, as President Trump ...
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