Translation for 'waterboarding' from English to Finnish

waterboarding

vesikidutus {noun}

• In February 2008, Bradbury testified before a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee about the legality of waterboarding and other torture techniques.
• Abu Zubaydah was held at a black site in Thailand starting in the spring of 2002. reportedly including Zubaydah "vomiting and screaming" during a waterboarding session.
• On December 11, 2014, Mukasey publicly stated on CNN that he believed waterboarding could not be called torture.
• In his 2012 book "Justice and the Enemy", Shawcross defended the use of torture and waterboarding at Guantánamo Bay as a natural "response to the most urgent problems" of terrorism.
• The prison was part of the US government's "extraordinary rendition" program after the September 11 attacks, and used torture techniques such as waterboarding.

• During 2016, Trump has called for the resumption of waterboarding, on another occasion he has said, "Nobody knows if it's torture".
• During his campaign, Trump said that "I would bring back waterboarding, and I'd bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding".
• Saccone advocated for waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and other forms of torture in articles and his book.
• Despite appearing troubled by Mukasey's refusal to declare in public that waterboarding was illegal torture, Schumer announced on November 2 that he would vote to confirm Mukasey.
• "The Washington Post" reported that on August 17, 2008, Powers brought in Mike Ritz, a former US official experienced in administering waterboarding, for a one time demonstration of waterboarding on volunteers.

• Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Human Rights Watch asserted that waterboarding can cause the sort of "severe pain" prohibited by [...] (the implementation in the United States of the United Nations Convention Against Torture), that the psychological effects can last long after waterboarding ends (another of the criteria under 18 USC 2340), and that uninterrupted waterboarding can ultimately cause death.