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Judge orders US government to halt force-feeding of Guantánamo prisoner and...
District Court Judge Gladys Kessler has for the first time ordered the U.S. government to suspend force-feeding of a hunger-striking prisoner in Guantánamo Bay. The same order requires the Obama administration to halt ‘forcible cell extractions’ of a prisoner, in which a team of guards in riot gear storms a prisoner’s cell to move him by force to feedings if he refuses to go.
Waterboarding in Mississippi
Waterboarding was sometimes used in the Deep South to torture African-Americans and to extract false confessions to alleged crimes.