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> What you call torture It has been called torture by a large number of people, including Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. You can dispute th
by shkkmo 5y ago
> What you call torture
It has been called torture by a large number of people, including Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. You can dispute the definition, but it has a strong basis in international law.
> A journalist normally does not convince a suicidal army recruit in Iraq to search the local network for more encrypted files he and his team can crack themselves.
Journalists do a wide variety of things, sometimes those things are unethical, that doesn't stop them from being journalists.
- F6F6FA 5y agoIf torture, then you should defend that the UK is torturing prisoners. I thought that was going to be a hard sell, but then I checked the most recent thing that Nils wrote and it seems to be selling exactly that: > #Assange’s stroke is no surprise. > As we warned after examining him, unless relieved of the constant pressure of isolation, arbitrariness & persecution, his health would enter a downward spiral endangering his life. > #UK is literally torturing him to death. Prisoners face undue pressure of isolation making strokes unsurprising? Not buying it. Instead, accepting that Assange was a journalist, who was acting in a different manner than usual journalists, and now up to the courts to decide if this manner was against their laws or not. Activism as a motive may actually be a better defense, but not a defense lawyer.
- q1w2 5y agoEncouraging military personnel to search for and exfiltrate data goes WAY beyond what a normal journalist does. Regardless of whether you think it's unethical - it's illegal.