Essay On Does Torture Violate Human Rights

In discussion of torture, one controversial issue has been whether torture is effective and if it violates the human rights. On the one hand, some argue that torture is effective. Others even maintain that torture does not violate human rights. I disagree with allowing torture because in my view, torture is not effective, it violates the human rights, and undermines the effectiveness of interrogation methods. A main concern that torture has, or at least should have, is its ineffectiveness. One has to look at every aspect of the torture that is being done. For example, what kind of torture, to whom, and who is inflicting the torture. If torture is being done by some one who hates a certain race or simply has hate in them, then the torture that

Information can be extracted much faster by using interrogation methods, compared to that witch torture brings. Another great example of this has been the interrogation of Saddam Hussein. Asha Rangappa the author of the article “Torture Undermines the Effectiveness of the FBI”, is a former special agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) speaks on behalf of this interrogation. Rangappa states,” FBI agent George Piro, who was in charge of interrogating [Iraqi dictator] Saddam Hussein, was able to get the former dictator to talk, by among other things, reading his poetry, helping him planting a flower garden…” (Rangappa). Rangappa is corroborating to my statement of torture ineffectiveness. FBI agents were able to gather willing information by simply putting interest in a person. There was no need to force the information out because Hussein talked and gave out the information that was wanted without any pressure or violence, it was out of his own will. The reason this occurred was because agent Piro engaged in things that Hussein related to, which in a sense could have led him to feel comfortable around Piro and give him what he what he was looking for. Which was the information. Another similar case was terrorist detainee Abu Zubayadahs interrogation. It was said that FBI agent Ali Soufan received information from Abu Zubayadahs while he was being nursed back

He is, in fact, ready to confess to anything. He signs a false statement saying that he went for training in Afghanistan…he knows nothing…” (Grey). Basically, Grey is corroborating that torture is not effective. Torture is a method that can force an innocent person to agreeing to something that is not true. It can force an innocent person to plead guilty to what that person is being accused of, such as it was in the case of Maher Arar. Maher Arar agreed to saying he went to traing in Afghanistan, which was not true. The reason he did this is simple, he wanted to stop the pain that was being inflicted on him by the CIA interrogator. The strategy of torture was what lead to this. The simple fact this has and could keep happening is a big concern, because not only is false information given with torture, but it is also making an innocent person confess to something they didn’t do. Not only does that mean that the person is being tortured unjustified, but also mean that that person can be facing legal charges because of the result of torture. A person in pain is most likely to be willing to say anything that the CIA wants to hear, which makes torture not only an unreliable