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Twenty interrogation methods reportedly used by the CIA amount to torture and are illegal under US and international law.

The Senate is moving forward with investigations into detainee abuses by personnel from the Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency.

Please write to your members of Congress and the President and tell them that you want a full accounting of the abuses that have occurred and a ban on all twenty interrogation methods.

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

As the Senate investigates detainee abuses by personnel from the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency, it is important that the brutal interrogation tactics that are central to these abuses be ended once and for all.

US law requires an assessment of the physical and mental impact of an interrogation method to determine its legality. It is indisputable that these methods can cause their victims severe and often irreversible harm. Twenty of the interrogation methods reportedly used by the CIA amount to torture and are illegal under US and international law. The 20 illegal methods are:

* Mock executions * Water boarding * Other forms of simulated drowning or suffocation * Sexual humiliation * Rape * Cultural and religious humiliation * Exploitation of phobias or psychopathology * Induced hypothermia * Use of psychotropic drugs or use of other mind-altering substances for the purposes of eliciting information * Hooding * Forced nakedness * Stress positions * Use of dogs to threaten or intimidate * Physical assault including slapping and shaking * Exposure to extremes of heat and cold * Isolation * Sensory deprivation * Sleep deprivation * Threatened use of these techniques or other harm to the detainee * Threatened use of these techniques or other harm to the detainee's family

I urge you to end the use of all twenty of these interrogation methods.

Sincerely,

Campaign Launched:
August 03, 2007