The UN's chief torture investigator criticised the US government yesterday for defending the use of "waterboarding", an interrogation method often described as a form of torture.
Manfred Nowak, the special rapporteur on torture, said: "This is absolutely unacceptable under international human rights law.
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straightforward report of the reaction of the "UN's chief torture investigator," a special rapporteur on torture, There are errors in it, however, or verbal dodges. waterboarding is not simply 'often described as a form of torture' but is widely acknowledged legally and otherwise as torture, and the technique does not 'create a sensation of drowning' but is a form of drowning that is controlled by the torturer.
