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137 Physicians for Human Rights, Break Them Down: Systematic Use of Psychological Torture by US Forces 1, 45
(2005).
138 Id.
139 Id.
140 NY Psychological Association Task Force (2006), supra note 37, at 10, citing D.M. Day, Examining the therapeutic
utility of restraint and seclusion with children and youth: The role of theory and research in practice, 72 American
Journal of Orthopsychiatry 234-233 (2002).
141 Id.
142 514 C.M.R. § 5.14(3)(d)(4) (1987).
143 Nowak & MacArthur (2008), supra note 124, at 73-74, citing the U.S. reservations, declarations, and
understandings, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
Cong. Rec. S17486-01 (daily ed., Oct. 27, 1990).
144 Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: Note by the Secretary-General (2008),
supra note 1, at para. 49.
145 Nowak & McArthur (2008), supra note 124, at 74, citing Herman Burgers & Hans Danelius, The United Nations
Convention against Torture: Handbook on the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment 119 (2008).
146 Id.
147 Nowak & McArthur (2008), supra note 124, at 75.
148 Id. at 75-76.
149 Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: Note by the Secretary-General (2008),
supra note 1, at para. 47.
150 Matthew L. Israel, supra note 57, at “Mere Announcement of Court Approval to Use GED as an Effective
Intervention.”
151 Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment: Note by the Secretary-General (2008),
supra note 1, at para. 49.
152 NY Psychological Association Task Force (2006), supra note 37, at 6.
153 Id. at 5.
154 Amnesty International, Arming the Torturers, ACT 40/004/1997 2 (March 4, 1997).
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