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Torture timeline

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1949

August 12, 1949

1969 to 2005, UK

1969/1970. The UK used five techniques (wall-standing, hooding, subjection to noise, deprivation of sleep, and deprivation of food and drink) on at least 14 terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland.

1972 2nd March, "Parker Report" found the five techniques to be illegal (though without declaring them to be torture).

1977, 8 February 1977, the Attorney-General stated to the European Commission of Human Rights (ECHR): The Government of the United Kingdom have considered the question of the use of the 'five techniques' with very great care and with particular regard to Article 3 of the [ECHR] Convention. They now give this unqualified undertaking, that the 'five techniques' will not in any circumstances be reintroduced as an aid to interrogation. (While critical of the techniques, the ECHR had not declared them to be torture).

2005, 9th Dec, the House of Lords cited this case and ruled unanimously that British courts cannot use evidence which might have been extracted by torture in terrorism cases. Lord Bingham of Cornhill delivered the core opinion stating that in the history of British common law torture was "repugnant to reason, justice, and humanity" while Lord Brown branded it "an unqualified evil with no place in British justice".

1992

September 28, 1992

1994

November 20, 1994

1996

August 21, 1996

2000

October 12, 2000

2001

August 2001

August 16, 2001

September 2001

September 11, 2001

September 16, 2001

"We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies, if we're going to be successful."

September 17, 2001

September 18, 2001

September 23, 2001

September 25, 2001

October 2001

October 4, 2001

October 7, 2001

October 10 to 12, 2001

October 23, 2001

November 2001

Before November 6, 2001

November 6, 2001

November 10, 2001

November 13, 2001

November 20, 2001

November 25, 2001

November 30, 2001

December 2001

December 6 to 18, 2001

December 9, 2001

December 11, 2001

December 15, 2001

December 17, 2001

Unknown December 2001

December 18, 2001

December 19, 2001

December 21, 2001

December 25, 2001

December 26, 2001

December 27, 2001

December 28, 2001

2002

January 2002

January 3, 2002

January 7, 2002

January 8, 2002

January 9, 2002

January 11, 2002

January 14, 2002

January 16, 2002

January 18, 2002

January 19, 2002

January 20, 2002

January 22, 2002

January 24, 2002

January 25, 2002

January 26, 2002

About January 28, 2002

February 2002

February 1, 2002

February 2, 2002

February 4, 2002

February 7, 2002

February 12, 2002

February 13, 2002

February 19, 2002

February 21 or 22, 2002

February 22, 2002

February 26, 2002

March 2002

March 5, 2002

March 13, 2002

March 16, 2002

Mid March 2002

March 21, 2002

March 22, 2002

March 25, 2002

Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz issues a directive, "Protection of Human Subjects and Adherence to Ethical Standards in DoD-Supported Research". The directive weakens experimentation protections by limiting the safeguards to "prisoners of war."

March 28, 2002

About March 31, 2002

Late March, 2002

April 2002

April 8, 2002

April 10, 2002

April 13, 2002

April 16, 2002

April 17, 2002

April 18, 2002

Unknown April 2002

April 27, 2002

April 28, 2002

May 2002

May 3, 2002

May 6, 2002

May 8, 2002

Roughly May 13, 2002

May 22, 2002

Mid-May 2002

June 2002

June 7, 2002

June 8, 2002

June 9, 2002

June 11, 2002

June 17, 2002

June 27, 2002

Unknown June 2002

July 2002

July 1, 2002

July 8, 2002

July 10, 2002

July 13, 2002

July 15, 2002

July 16, 2002

July 17, 2002

July 18, 2002

July 19, 2002

July 22, 2002

About July 22, 2002

July 24, 2002

July 25, 2002

July 26, 2002

July 27, 2002

July 31, 2002

August 2002

August 1, 2002

"These ten techniques are: (1) attention grasp, (2) walling, (3) facial hold, (4) facial slap (insult slap), (5) cramped confinement, (6) wall standing, (7) stress positions, (8) sleep deprivation, (9) insects placed in a confinement box, and (10) the waterboard."

August 4, 2002

August 8, 2002

August 12, 2002

August 20, 2002

August 24, 2002

Unknown August, 2002

September 2002

Unknown September, 2002

September 4, 2002

CBS reveals Donald Rumsfeld's 9/11 notes telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq. "Go massive... Sweep it all up. Things related and not."

September 10, 2002

September 11, 2002

Around September 11, 2002

September 16, 2002

September 17, 2002

September 19, 2002

September 23, 2002

"drive the hooded detainee around the island to disorient him, disrobe him to his underwear, have an interrogator with an Egyptian accent (it is known among the detainees that Egyptians are aggressive interrogators and commonly use coercion, to include maiming)"

September 25, 2002

About September 25, 2002

September 26, 2002

September 30, 2002

October 2002

October 1, 2002

October 2, 2002

October 4, 2002

October 5, 2002

October 7, 2002

October 8, 2002

October 11, 2002

October 12, 2002

October 16, 2002

About October 18, 2002

October 25, 2002

October 2002

November 2002

Early November 2002

November 2, 2002

November 4, 2002

November 7, 2002

November 11, 2002

November 12, 2002

November 15, 2002

November 16, 2002

October or November 2002

November 19, 2002

Before November 23, 2003

November 23, 2002

November 27, 2002

December 2002

December 2, 2002

December 3, 2002

December 4, 2002

December 5, 2002

December 6, 2002

December 7, 2002

December 10, 2002

About December 14, 2002

December 14, 2002

December 17, 2002

December 18, 2002

December 19, 2002

December 20, 2002

December 21, 2002

December 23, 2002

December 26, 2002

About December 28, 2002

December 31, 2002

2003

January 2003

January 3, 2003

January 9, 2003

January 11, 2003

January 13, 2003

January 15, 2003

January 16, 2003

January 17, 2003

January 21, 2003

About January 22, 2003

January 23, 2003

January 24, 2003

January 27, 2002

January 28, 2003

January 31, 2003

February 2003

February 1, 2003

February 4, 2003

February 5, 2003

February 6, 2003

February 10, 2003

February 11, 2003

February 12, 2003

February 17, 2003

February 22, 2003

February 25, 2003

February 28, 2003

March 2003

March 1, 2003

After March 1, 2003

March 5, 2003

March 6 or 7, 2003

March 7, 2003

March 8, 2003

March 9, 2003

"We are handling them with kid gloves. After all, they are only little children," said one official, "but we need to know as much about their father's recent activities as possible."
"His sons are important to him. The promise of their release and their return to Pakistan may be the psychological lever we need to break him."

March 12, 2003

March 13, 2003

March 14, 2003

March 17, 2003

March 19, 2003

March 28, 2003

April 2003

April 4, 2003

April 10, 2003

April 16, 2003

April 17, 2003

April 28, 2003

April 29, 2003

May 2003

May 2, 2003

May 9, 2003

May 22, 2003

June 2003

June 2, 2003

June 6, 2003

June 8, 2003

June 12, 2003

June 13, 2003

June 16, 2003

June 17, 2003

June 19, 2003

June 21, 2003

June 26, 2003

July 2003

July 16, 2003

"The value of the program is taking the terrorists of the streets, and success is judged by the quality of the information."

July 17, 2003

July 29, 2003

July 31, 2003

August 2003

August 4, 2003

August 11, 2003

August 13, 2003

August 21, 2003

August 22, 2003

August 25, 2003

August 26, 2003

August 28, 2003

August 31 to September 9, 2003

September 2003

September 4, 2003

September 5, 2003

September 6, 2003

September 9, 2003

September 11, 2003

September 12, 2003

September 14, 2003

September 17, 2003

September 16, 2003

September 23 to 24, 2003

October 2003

October 2, 2003

October 5, 2003

October 6, 2003

October 7, 2003

October 9, 2003

October 12, 2003

October 25, 2003

October 26, 2003

October 27, 2003

November 2003

November 4, 2003

November 6, 2003

November 7 to 9, 2003

November 18, 2003

November 22, 2003

November 25, 2003

November 26, 2003

December 2003

December 12, 2003

Late December, 2003

2004

January 2004

January 9, 2004

January 13, 2004

January 19, 2004

January 22 or 23, 2004

January 31, 2004

February 2004

February 2, 2004

About February 4, 2004

February 21, 2004

February 24, 2004

March 2004

March 1, 2004

March 2, 2004

March 4, 2004

March 9, 2004

March 10, 2004

March 11, 2004

March 12, 2004

March 18, 2004

March 19, 2004

March 27, 2004

March 30, 2004

April 2004

April 23, 2004

April 28, 2004

May 2004

After the Abu Ghraib scandal broke:

May 3, 2004

May 6, 2004

May 7, 2004

Around May 11, 2004

May 11, 2004

May 13, 2004

May 14, 2004

May 18, 2004

May 19, 2004

May 25, 2004

May 27, 2004

June 2004

June 3, 2004

June 4, 2004

June 8, 2004

June 10, 2004

June 11, 2004

June 15, 2004

June 17, 2004

June 18, 2004

June 21, 2004

June 22, 2004

June 23, 2004

June 25, 2004

June 28, 2004

June 29, 2004

July 2004

July 2, 2004

July 7, 2004

July 14, 2004

July 16, 2004

July 20, 2004

July 21, 2004

July 22, 2004

July 23, 2004

July 25, 2004

July 26, 2004

July 29, 2004

July 30, 2004

August 2004

August 2, 2004

August 6, 2004

August 19, 2004

August 25, 2004

August 26, 2004

September 2004

September 6, 2004

September 15, 2004

September 19, 2004

September 20, 2004

Unknown September 2004

September 24, 2004

September 29, 2004

October 2004

October 1, 2004

October 12, 2004

October 25, 2004

November 2004

November 18, 2004

December 2004

December 6, 2004

December 30, 2004

"The goal of interrogation is to produce a state of learned helplessness and dependence conducive to the collection of intelligence".

2005

January 2005

January 5, 2005

January 15, 2005

January 27 and 28, 2005

January 31, 2005

February 2005

February 3, 2005

February 4, 2005

Unknown February, 2005

March 2005

March 2, 2005

April 2005

April 8, 2005

April 20, 2005

April 22, 2005

April 26, 2005

April 27, 2005

April 28, 2005

May 2005

May 2, 2005

May 10, 2005

May 20, 2005

May 30, 2005

After May 30, 2005

June 2005

June 1, 2005

July 2005

July 15, 2005

July 28, 2005

August 2005

August 5, 2005

September 2005

October 2005

October 13, 2005

October 24, 2005

November 2005

November 2, 2005

November 3, 2005

November 4, 2005

November 5, 2005

November 7, 2005

November 8, 2005

November 9, 2005

November 10, 2005

November 14, 2005

November 18, 2005

November 22, 2005

December 2005

December 1, 2005

December 18, 2005

December 21, 2005

December 30, 2005

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2006

January 2006

January 3, 2006

January 21, 2006

February 2006

March 2006

March 28, 2006

April 2006

April 18, 2006

April 20, 2006

May 2006

May 18, 2006

May 19, 2006

May 26, 2006

June 2006

June 6, 2006

June 9, 2006

June 10, 2006

June 29, 2006

June 30, 2006

July 2006

July 7, 2006

August 2006

August 6, 2006

August 31, 2006

September 2006

September 5, 2006

September 6, 2006

After September 6, 2006

September 7, 2006

October 2006

October 6, 2006

October 17, 2006

November 2006

December 2006

December 4, 2006

2007

January 2007

February 2007

February 14, 2007

"The allegations of ill-treatment of the detainees indicate that, in many cases, the ill-treatment to which they were subjected while held in the CIA program, either singly or in combination, constituted torture. In addition, many other elements of the ill-treatment, either singly or in combination, constituted cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment."

March 2007

March 10, 2007

March 14, 2007

March 26, 2007

March 27, 2007

April 2007

April 15, 2007

May 2007

May 25, 2007

June 2007

June 4, 2007

June 10, 2007

June 19, 2007

July 2007

July 20, 2007

August 2007

August 16, 2007

August 23, 2007

September 2007

September 7, 2007

September 13, 2007

September 25, 2007

October 2007

October 25, 2007

October 27, 2007

November 2007

November 6, 2007

November 7, 2003

December 2007

December 3, 2007

December 6, 2007

December 7, 2007

December 8, 2007

December 10, 2007

2008

January 2008

January 2, 2008

January 7, 2008

February 2008

February 5, 2008

February 14, 2008

March 2008

March 31, 2008

April 2008

May 2008

May 13, 2008

May 20, 2008

May 29, 2008

June 2008

June 12, 2008

June 18, 2008

June 26, 2008

July 2008

August 2008

August 6, 2008

September 2008

Late Fall 2008

October 2008

October 6, 2008

October 21, 2008

November 2008

November 20, 2008

December 2008

December 23, 2008

2009

January 2009

January 15, 2009

January 20, 2009

January 22, 2009

February 2009

February 23, 2009

March 2009

April 2009

April 15, 2009

April 16, 2009

April 21, 2009

April 30, 2009

June 2009

June 11, 2009

September 2011

September 21, 2011

Rumsfeld Stripped Of Immunity In Torture Case

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This page was last modified 05:54, 12 July 2012 by dKosopedia user Garrett. Based on work by Robin Upton and Rich Wingerter and dKosopedia user(s) Walter. Content is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.


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