There's not physical torture anymore like the early days of the revolution, but there is a good deal of psychological torture.
The mistreatment included physical and psychological torture, intended to extract information or to punish those held by security forces, he said.
But contrary to survivors' testimony published by advocacy groups, the report did not find physical abuse or torture to be a feature of the laundries.
Rashid Rauf was arrested in Pakistan and was remanded to Adiala prison which, according to human rights campaigners, has been the scene of physical abuse and torture of terrorism suspects.
The other thing is that the reason people in the Arab world became very irate about all of this was not about physical abuse or torture, but it was about the desecration of the Koran and Islam.
They were then taken to Camp Cropper near Baghdad International Airport, where they "experienced a nightmarish scene in which they were detained incommunicado, in solitary confinement, and subjected to physical and psychological torture for the duration of their imprisonment - Vance for three months and Ertel for six weeks", the court wrote, reiterating the men's allegations.
Thousands of cases have been taken to the state prosecutors, with officials connected to the ousted administration accused of corruption, illegal wire-tapping, torture or physical abuse.
The three Fury sisters do indeed torture him with both physical pain and madness, but they have ulterior motives as well.
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Stafford Smith said that his client found the psychological torture more intolerable than the physical abuse that he said he had been previously subjected to in Morocco, where, he said, local intelligence agents had sliced him with a razor blade.
The report also points out that asylum-seeking women often have high-risk pregnancies, due to serious physical health conditions that can be related to having fled torture, sexual violence or female genital mutilation in their own countries.
On October 17th George Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act which (though he denies it would sanction torture) allows CIA investigators to use tough, physical, interrogation methods against terrorist suspects.
"Technically, that would be torture, in some cases, because that's physical aggression against a prisoner, " Mr Mudd says.
Convention Against Torture defines torture as any act by which severe pain or suffering, "whether physical or mental, " is inflicted on a person.
Details of Khan's torture claims were redacted in the filing, but Khan's attorneys have said he suffers "severe physical and psychological trauma from which he is unlikely ever to recover fully" as a result of his ordeal.
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