1. Is Torture Ever Acceptable By: Leah Whitehead

2. Torture Torture is the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain.

4. The head is tilted back and water is poured into the upturned mouth or nose. Eventually the subject cannot exhale more air or cough out more water, the lungs are collapsed, and the sinuses and trachea are filled with water. The subject is drowned from the inside, filling with water from the head down. The chest and lungs are kept higher than the head so that coughing draws water up and into the lungs while avoiding total suffocation.

6. . The cold cell is an “enhanced interrogation technique” where the prisoner is placed in front of an air conditioner unit for hours, days, and even years at a time.

8. White torture is a type of psychological torture that includes extreme sensory deprivation and isolation. Carrying out this type of torture makes the detainee lose personal identity through long periods of isolation.

11. Sabine’s Story “I was savagely beaten and repeatedly raped,” says Sabine, a Syrian 24-year-old refugee and torture survivor. “I had my hands and feet bound and was held captive for three weeks.” Sabine was kidnapped along with her brother and cousin by armed men. During captivity, she was forced to watch as they were beaten and murdered. She suffered from headaches, chronic pain, depression, anxiety and nightmares.

13. Poem Let it be a red light for torture never to turn to green-ever. Let it be buried, never to grow again. Eyes to see, ears to hear, Noses to smell the sweetness of freedom, Tongues to speak the truth without fear, Hands to work with happiness and joy, Legs to walk in the land of freedom. To jump, to run, to dance with my nation, To understand the reality of life From my birth until my death, To glorify my creator in each moment.

14. http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/22/tor ture.health.effects/index.html?iref=24hours#c nnSTCVideo http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/22/tor ture.health.effects/index.html?iref=24hours#c nnSTCVideo