This what mental coercion is
Oct. 22nd, 2007 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumThere are lines one doesn't cross. Some of them are fuzzy, and staying on the right side of them is something each person who interrogates has to do on her own.
But coercion is verboten, per Geneva. It's also a bad idea from a practical standpoint.
See if you can spot the problems in this story
A precis. Right after That Tuesday a guy is arrested when a radio which allows one to speak to airplanes is found in the closet. He protests his innocence, but is told that unless he confesses, his family will be tortured in Egypt. So he gives in and tells them he was complicit.
Only he wasn't and the pilot, who actually owned the radio; and had left it behind, came to ask for it.
That's bad enough (though there are those who will say that such tricks aren't torture; that telling people their families will be turned over to people who are willing to tape themselves raping a kidnapped, 13 year-old boy isn't a big deal), but when the court decision was released, and the details of what was done were public, in black and white they contacted them and asked them to take it down, so the only version available would be redacted.
Happily, there are links to be found which have the original opinion.
But coercion is verboten, per Geneva. It's also a bad idea from a practical standpoint.
See if you can spot the problems in this story
A precis. Right after That Tuesday a guy is arrested when a radio which allows one to speak to airplanes is found in the closet. He protests his innocence, but is told that unless he confesses, his family will be tortured in Egypt. So he gives in and tells them he was complicit.
Only he wasn't and the pilot, who actually owned the radio; and had left it behind, came to ask for it.
That's bad enough (though there are those who will say that such tricks aren't torture; that telling people their families will be turned over to people who are willing to tape themselves raping a kidnapped, 13 year-old boy isn't a big deal), but when the court decision was released, and the details of what was done were public, in black and white they contacted them and asked them to take it down, so the only version available would be redacted.
Happily, there are links to be found which have the original opinion.
