One of the detainees, Hawsawi, also needed reconstructive surgery after he was subject to what the 2014 Senate report on CIA torture called "rectal rehydration," which his lawyer calls sodomy, while at a black site. Mohammed was also subject to the tactic, and as waterboarded close to 200 times in a month.
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Jan 10, 2018 · (Ben Fox/AP) One of the detainees, Hawsawi, also needed reconstructive surgery after he was subject to what the 2014 Senate report on CIA torture called "rectal rehydration," which his lawyer calls...
Rectal rehydration was first described by Wisconsin Surgeon, John Benjamin Murphy in 1909. This technique was employed as a first aid treatment on the frontline in the World War 1. Rectal rehydration was common place practice before it got swept aside by intravenous method ofrehydration and drug administration.
“Rectal rehydration,” also referred to as “rectal feeding,” involved inserting a tube into detainees’ anal passage and “feeding” them. Sometimes this was done in response to a hunger strike and at other times was used as a means of “behavior control.” “At least five CIA detainees were subjected to ‘rectal rehydration’ or rectal feeding without documented medical ...
Oct 29, 2021 · The 2014 Senate torture report revealed “rectal rehydration” and “rectal feeding” the agency administered to Khan and others. The CIA has insisted the acts were medical necessities. But Khan had experienced multiple enemas in CIA custody. “This was different,” he remembered at Guantanamo.
As the name implies, rectal rehydration is the process of administering fluid or indeed medicine through the back passage i.e the rectum using a suitable apparatus in conditions where intravenous, oral or subcutaneous administration are not ideal or not possible.
The short answer is when oral or intravenous fluid administration is not possible and this could be due to a variety of reasons.
Probably one of the simplest things you can perform on a victim or yourself to save a life until help professional help arrives.
The CIA began the establishment of a specialised detention centre, codenamed DETENTION SITE COBALT, in April 2002. Although its location is not identified in the report it has been widely identified as being in Afghanistan. Conditions at the site were described in the report as poor “and were especially bleak early in the program”.
Gul Rahman died in the early hours of 20 November 2002, after being shackled to a cold concrete wall in a secret CIA prison. Photograph: AP
The CIA in the first half of 2003 interrogated four detainees described as having “medical complications in their lower extremities”: two had a broken foot, one had a sprained ankle and one a prosthetic leg.
The report suggests Abu Zubaydah was a broken man after his extensive interrogations. In CIA documents he is described as having become so compliant that “when the interrogator raised his eyebrows” he would walk to the “water table” and sit down.
One CIA interrogator at COBALT reported that “‘literally, a detainee could go for days or weeks without anyone looking at him’, and that his team found one detainee who ‘as far as we could determine’, had been chained to a wall in a standing position for 17 days’.’ Some prisoners were said to be like dogs in kennels: “When the doors to their cells were pened, ‘they cowered.’”.
Sleep deprivation involved keeping detainees awake for up to 180 hours, usually standing or in stress positions, at times with their hands shackled above their heads.
The White House, National Security Council (NSC) and others were given “extensive amounts of inaccurate and incomplete information” related to the operation and effectiveness of the CIA’s detention and interrogation programme. No CIA officer briefed the president on the specific CIA enhanced interrogation techniques before April 2006.
Before 1859, the Province of Canada prosecuted sodomy under the English Buggery Act. In 1859, the Province of Canada enacted its own buggery law in the Consolidated Statutes of Canada as an offence punishable by death. Buggery remained punishable by death until 1869.
In practice, sodomy laws have rarely been enforced against heterosexual couples, and have mostly been used to target homosexual couples. As of July 2020, 68 countries as well as five sub-national jurisdictions have laws criminalizing homosexuality. In 2006 that number was 92.
The punishment for those convicted was the death penalty until 1861 in England and Wales, and 1887 in Scotland.
In the early 1960s, the penalties for sodomy in the various states varied from imprisonment for two to ten years and/or a fine of US$2,000.
The age of consent is 16 , and Article 277 and the Child and Youth Sexual Transaction Prevention Act Article 22 make it a criminal offense to engage in sexual contact with minors. The law is written in gender neutral terms and does not discriminate against homosexual conduct.
Following the Wolfenden report, the Dunstan Labor government introduced a consenting adults in private type legal defence in South Australia in 1972. This defence was initiated as a bill by Murray Hill, father of former Defence Minister Robert Hill, and repealed the state's sodomy law in 1975.
The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2006 replaced this offence with "defilement of a child", encompassing both "sexual intercourse" and "buggery". Buggery with an animal is still unlawful under Section 69 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.