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[Method of torture] [date=March 2022] [the torture method]
WALLING is a method of torture used by the CIA in which a person's neck is
encircled by a collar, and is then used to slam the person against a wall.
According to information gathered by the International Committee of the Red
Cross from six detainees, "walling" meant "beating by use of a collar", in at
least one instance against a concrete wall.<ref name=gordon>[last=Gordon
][date=March 2022]
Prompted to explain their interrogation techniques to the United States
Department of Justice in 2005, the CIA provided a series of memos to the
department's Office of Legal Counsel, one of which described "walling". The
memo states that walling "involves the use of a flexible, false wall ... the
interrogator pulls the individual forward and then quickly and firmly pushes
the individual into the wall. It is the individual's shoulder blades that hit
the wall. During this motion, the head and neck are supported with a rolled
hood or towel".<ref name=gordon />[date=March 2022][1]<ref
name=immunity>[last1=Gorman ]
Steven G. Bradbury, a Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General during the
Bush administration, said that walling "involves what may be characterized as
rough handling".
According to a report by the CIA Inspector General, Ammar al-Baluchi suffered
brain damage after being used as a "training prop" for interrogators.[2]
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