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A further initiative was taken to strengthen the campaign at the national level when Al's British Section raised with the British Government, members of parliament and the national media the question of the training currently being given to selected British servicemen in resistance to interrogation and torture. The techniques involved in this training include hooding, wall-standing, restrict- ed diet, sleep deprivation and the use of noise-making machines the very tech- niques that the British government in 1972 forbade the military using in Northern Ireland.
Al national sections and CAT groups have become increasingly active in carry- ing forward all facets of the campaign, including widespread publicity, special programs of research, representations to embassies and foreign ministries on be- half of victims and the education of their own parliamentarians about the need for national and international laws against torture.
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"Amnesty International has proof that there is a world trade in sophisticated instruments of torture.
"It's the best product on the market, Mr President. We've heard nothing but moans about it.”
From Politiken, Copenhagen, Denmark. Reprinted by permission of the cartoonist Bo Bojesen.
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