Placing of a hood over the entire head of a prisoner
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Hooding is the placing of a hood over the entire head of a prisoner.[1] Hooding is widely considered to be a form of torture; one legal scholar considers the hooding of prisoners to be a violation of international law, specifically the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions, which demand that persons under custody or physical control of enemy forces be treated humanely. Hooding can be dangerous to a prisoner's health and safety.[2] It is considered to be an act of torture when its primary purpose is sensory deprivation during interrogation; it causes "disorientation, isolation, and dread."[3][4] According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, hooding is used to prevent a person from seeing, to disorient them, to make them anxious, to preserve their torturer's anonymity, and to prevent the person from breathing freely.
In 1997, the United Nations Committee Against Torture had concluded that hooding constituted torture, a position it reiterated in 2004 after the committee's special rapporteur had "received information on certain methods that have been condoned and used to secure information from suspected terrorists."[5]
Hooding is a common prelude to execution.[6][7]
^Amy Zalman. "Hooding". About.com. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
^Matthew Happold (April 11, 2003). "UK troops 'break law' by hooding Iraqi prisoners". Guardian News and Media Limited.
^Human Rights Watch/Middle East (1994). Torture and ill-treatment: Israel's interrogation of Palestinians from the Occupied Territories. Human Rights Watch. pp. 171–77. ISBN 978-1-56432-136-7.
^Matthew Happold (April 11, 2003). "UK troops 'break law' by hooding Iraqi prisoners". Guardian News and Media.
^"Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" (PDF). United Nations General Assembly. 2004-09-01. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2009-11-21.
^J.A. Ulio (June 12, 1944). "Procedure for Military Executions". U.S. War Department.
^Richard Ramsey (April 20, 2006). "Pierrepoint". Picturing Justice. Archived from the original on March 23, 2010. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
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