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2024-03-26 11:42:32 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 5A621B4676F147EC1C4258E3172D4EFD8A1636F872F9A8BF1201D1CD3E29EA59
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There have been several recent scandals where agents of the USA were found to have committed torture, particularly as part of the "war on terror". http://hrp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CAT-Shadow-Report-Advocates-for-US-Torture-Prosecutions.pdf Some domestic American policies have also been found to constitute torture, such as police and prison brutality. https://web.archive.org/web/20120607020132/http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/False-Confessions.php
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