That treaty included a guarantee of a fair trial free of torture-tainted evidence for anyone sent back to Jordan.
BBC: Abu Qatada case: UK agrees assistance treaty with Jordan
So far, his strategic gifts have proved more effective than the torture-with-rats approach.
It recommends all those found to have carried out torture - and particularly "known torturers" from the military period - should be immediately suspended.
Although Brazil has a law against torture - with prison sentences for offenders - the report said that in practice this is never applied.
Richard Myers and Pentagon attorneys, visited the U.S.-run prison -- once used by the Saddam Hussein regime for torture -- during the one-day trip.
But the signs of torture -- the cuts, the disembowelment -- were along the lines of what officials are used to seeing in drug-related violence.
There is no place for children at an orgy of violence like the (merely R-rated) Pulp Fiction or a torture-themed demented fantasy like Dark Knight.
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Convention Against Torture -- to try to frighten detainees into talking.
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In 2007 he lost his immigration case, but the Court of Appeal later ruled that deportation to a regime which uses torture - ie Jordan - would breach his human rights.
BBC: Abu Qatada case: UK agrees assistance treaty with Jordan
But that is at last changing, now that the torture-plague has touched senior aides of Tehran's mayor, Gholam-Hossein Karbaschi, an influential figure in the Islamic republic's more moderate wing.
In tense questioning of the lead British diplomat, Anthony Layden, it emerged Jordanian ministers would not give a specific assurance on what exactly would happen to the original torture-tainted statements.
That was a disastrous blow to the Home Office because it meant the only way the deportation could happen would be if Jordan changed its system to ensure torture-tainted evidence could not be used.
BBC: Abu Qatada case: UK agrees assistance treaty with Jordan
And yet, when we go to the most fundamental and basic definition of torture - waterboarding - we can't elicit an answer from the attorney general or his deputy attorney general, and that is my dilemma.
Far from "green lighting" torture -- or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees -- the memos detail the actual techniques used and the many measures taken to ensure that interrogations did not cause severe pain or degradation.
The events Kang described in his testimony before the House Committee on International Relations -- the long hours of interrogation, isolation, vague threats if he spoke about his ordeal after his release, psychological and emotional torture -- bear a surprising similarity to my own experience.
You see, this is real torture, religion-of-peace torture.
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Our correspondent says one sticking point was Russia, most of whose cases relate to alleged abuses by the country's security forces in Chechnya - including extra-judicial killings, torture and disappearances - or to conditions in prisons.
In a narrow, careful reading of English statutes, Lord Bingham concluded that General Pinochet enjoys criminal immunity for all actions carried out in his role as head of state even the ordering of others to commit large-scale murder, torture and hostage-taking.
The liberals' influence has been seen in recent decisions to abolish Egypt's harsh state-security courts and to create a human-rights body though these moves have yet to put an end to torture and extra-judicial punishments.
Mr. Gramajo was accused of torture by human-rights groups and his U.S. visa was eventually revoked.
Most of these conspiracy theories focus solely on the controversy regarding the film having a possible pro-torture stance.
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Amnesty says torture and ill-treatment remained endemic in Egypt, and has resulted in the death of some detainees.
All that experience of self-torture came in handy, however, when it came time to deal with an angry, vengeful book industry.
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Even locals tolerant of the torture and extra-judicial execution of Taliban members, however, are uneasy that some innocents have perished horribly.
Baier dispatched five execution squads, thus keeping the "torture zone"--the excruciating wait to find out if you've been let go--to a minimum.
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In signing Senator John McCain's anti-torture bill, for instance, the president issued a statement suggesting that he would not be constrained by the law.
Also, Iraqi officials say the type of violence is changing in the last few months along with torture and execution-style murders by militias and gangs.
Reports of police torture and extra-judicial killings are on the rise.
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