Guantanamo Bay - Guantanamo Bay is a place in Cuba where the US is legally allowed to torture prisoners, because it technacly isn't on US soil. Torture methods include noise torture, sleep deprevasion, forced feeding through tubes, restriction, isolation and medical neglect. Obama promised to shut it down but never did.
Bobby Fischer - Bobby Fischer was a chess champion who was sponsored to play against the Soviets during the cold war. Despite his Jewish heritage, he was flagrently critical of the US, Israel and Jewish supremacy in general. In May 1981, Pasadena police mistakenly arrested Fischer because he resembled a local bank robbery suspect. He was held in a detention cell for 48 hours before being released on bail and ultimately cleared of any involvement in the crime.
In 2004, Fischer was arrested at Narita International Airport for trying to board a flight with an invalid US passport. Solitary Confinement: He spent eight months in a Japanese detention center, including a brief stint in solitary confinement after an argument over a hard-boiled egg. After granting him citizenship, Iceland sent a delegation to rescue him. On March 24, 2005, Fischer boarded a grueling, nearly 24-hour flight from Tokyo to Reykjavík. He landed looking gaunt, haggard, and unkempt, which visually fueled public associations with his earlier claims of being a mistreated captive.
Torture by the US illegally funded Contras
Torture during the Iraq War - In 2004, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, a senior officer in charge of Abu Ghraib, testified at a military court hearing, that an Arabic-speaking Israeli interrogator came and spoke to her at an intelligence facility in Baghdad. Several individuals, including Eric Fair—a contract interrogator for the private firm CACI at Abu Ghraib—have alleged that U.S. interrogators were trained to use a torture device known as the "Palestinian chair" during joint training exercises. The chair is designed to immobilize prisoners in painful, restricted postures to break them down physically and psychologically. Human rights organizations have long pointed out striking similarities between the harsh interrogation techniques used at Abu Ghraib—such as sleep deprivation, stress positions, hooding, and sensory bombardment—and tactics that had previously been used by Israeli security services (such as the Shin Bet). The transfer of "creative" interrogation techniques from Guantanamo to Iraq by Major General Geoffrey Miller also fueled allegations that the U.S. military adopted modified Israeli interrogation methodologies.
No doubt these methods were applied at Abu Ghrab, where prisoners, including thousands of Iraqi civilians were held and tortured with methods such as rape, sleep deprivation, stress positions, contact with human extriment and pouring phosphoric acid on detainees. According to public lectures and findings reported by Seymour Hersh, women were occasionally arrested and held alongside their young children. In specific recorded instances, boys were subjected to severe physical abuse and sodomy while video cameras recorded. The resulting soundtrack of the children shrieking was subsequently played back to the detained mothers. This was done as a targeted psychological operation to force them to cooperate or talk when other interrogation methods failed.
The context of this picture is that they told him he would be shocked if he fell off of the box. This was used as a method of sleep deprevasion.
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