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2024-03-26 12:13:12 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 681E5BB46BA9B5F0651DFF4014D1B5B029228298AAE9F615DC076C09F4CD3BF1
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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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