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Released: April 2008
Avertiser: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (Tag)
Agency: Drugstore (Tag)
Country: United Kingdom (Tag)
Category: Public awareness messages (Tag)
Campaign: Amnesty International (Unsubscribe) (Tag)
The new 90-second spot recreates the waterboarding of a prisoner, a technique which has been used by the USA against combat prisoners.
Project: UNSUBSCRIBE 2008
Client: Sara MacNeice - Campaign Manager, Terrorism, Security & Human Rights Brief: Encourage people to unsubscribe from the CIA ‘enhanced interrogation technique' of waterboarding
Creative Agency: Drugstore
Writer: Marc Hawker
Art director: Marc Hawker
Producer: Jennifer Jackson
Directors: Marc Hawker, Ishbel Whitaker Production
Company: Dark Fibre Films
Water Effects: Pennicott Payne
Music: Adam Freeland
Post Production: James Maclachlan at Prime Focus
Website design: Sam Collett, Russell Schaller
Spot: We Unsubscribe The Torture
The torture technique shown in the video is legally used by the CIA.Be against those methods.. unsubscribeAmnesty International http://www.unsubscribe-me.org/getstar...
Credit Link: http://www.unsubscribe-me.org/
Credit Link: http://www.coloribus.com/paedia/reels/2008/4/23/511632/
Detail of Waterboarding
CNN NEWS:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- During five hours of heated wrangling with frustrated Senate Democrats, Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused Wednesday to budge from his position that the controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding is not clearly illegal.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey testifies Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
Mukasey announced on the eve of the hearing that he would not give in to demands for an answer on the issue. Waterboarding was a key issue in Mukasey's confirmation three months ago.
Waterboarding is prohibited by the U.S. military.
In 2006, the CIA and Pentagon banned the technique, which involves strapping an interrogation subject to a surface, covering the person's face with cloth and pouring water on the face to imitate the sensation of drowning.
If the Justice Department joined other nations and specifically defined waterboarding as illegal, CIA interrogators might be vulnerable to retroactive legal action in either U.S. or international courts.
Mukasey said he would not and did not need to discuss the legality of something that would only serve to provide information to the enemy. Watch more of Mukasey's testimony »
The hearing ended as it began -- with a demand from committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, for an unequivocal declaration that waterboarding constitutes torture and is illegal.
"It is not enough just to say that waterboarding is not currently authorized," Leahy said. "The attorney general of the United States should be able to declare that it is wrong, it is illegal, and it is beyond the pale. It has been for over a century."
Mukasey's testimony marked his first visit to Capitol Hill since October, when he barely survived a confirmation vote after a testy confrontation on the torture issue.
In October, Mukasey insisted he could not make a declaration of legality because he had not been briefed on classified programs.
On Wednesday, he took a different approach but ended up in the same place. Now that he has been briefed, he said, he can see that reasonable people may differ.
"There are some circumstances where current law would appear clearly to prohibit the use of waterboarding. Other circumstances would present a far closer question," he testified.
That prompted Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, to demand Mukasey identify "reasonable people" who differ with him. When Mukasey suggested the Senate included such people, Whitehouse rejected the answer, insisting the Senate had spoken in passing a measure outlawing the technique. But Mukasey pointed to another Senate vote in which such a declaration was rejected.
On Wednesday, Sen. Edward Kennedy joined the Democratic chorus complaining of Mukasey's non-answer on the waterboarding question.
"It's like you're opposed to stealing but not quite sure that bank robbery would qualify," Kennedy said.
Mukasey is expected to face a repeat battle when he appears before the House Judiciary Committee next week.
Credit Link: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/30/mukasey.waterboarding/
The word "simulated" (as in 'drowning' or 'suffocating' is truly misleading. They aren't simulating it, they're actually drowning and suffocating people - they just don't finish the job.
Water boarding demonstration. Taken at the January 27th march on Washington DC. Water boarding is a torture method employed by the American government, in clear violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Is the form of extreme interrogation known as WATERBOARDING really a form of TORTURE?
You be the judge...
This video was shot outside the Justice Department on Monday November 5th as Iranian American Maboud Ebrahimzadeh was waterboarded in a VERY graphic anti-troture demonstration to protest the nomination of Michael Mukasey as US Attorney General.
Navy SEAL Lt. Jordan O'Neil (Demi Moore) is waterboarded as a part of SERE training in "GI Jane". In actual SERE waterboarding the cloth is placed over the nose and mouth to keep the water in, distribute the water across the face, and prevent the subject from taking a clear breath.
This is an extended waterboarding sequence for the opening of my short documentary entitled Prisoners of War: Torture Past and Present
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