• SpoopyKing
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    5 months ago

    I’ll preface this by saying that it’s obvious to anyone who read Greta’s statements and has a lick of common sense that this was torture, and the poster would know that if they weren’t a genocide apologist.

    From the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 1.1.1

    For the purposes of this Convention, the term “torture” means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.

    18 USC § 2340(1)

    “torture” means an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control;

    Yeah it meets the legal definition of torture. Not that it matters, since that’s not a justification for what they did to her even if it was true. And these people are still ignoring the much worse crimes committed against thousands of Palestinians.