While many of the interrogation methods employed are torture, this term is meant to carve out a space for "new" torture, this is such a big issue that simply lumping it with torture in general would muddy the waters.
A lawsuit that charges the Department of Defense and other government agencies with illegally withholding records concerning the abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody.
Three former Guantanamo detainees from Britain say they confessed to involvement in terrorist activity in Afghanistan after being subjected to months of physical and mental abuse.