It is right to use waterboarding as an interrogation method for serious situations .
This was written by Tommy Hansson (SD), local politician and former editor in chief of SD courier, on his blog.
– This is not a method that you use to felparkerare, he says to Expressen.se.
Tommy Hansson (SD) city council member in Södertälje and former editor of the party’s membership magazine SD courier.
Hansson runs a blog where he in 2009 wrote a post about that waterboarding is an interrogation method that should be available at major locations.
Five years later, it is an opinion that he stands by which the site Slutpixlat and Metro has drawn attention. On Friday dusted he of the post when he linked to it from his Twitter account with the comment, “I wrote about the interrogation method waterboarding a few years ago. Usable under extreme conditions.”
waterboarding, or “waterboarding” as it is also called, means posting, for example, a piece of cloth over the face of a restrained person and then pouring water over the fabric. The restrained person experiences when a terribly unpleasant sensation of drowning.
Elisabeth Löfgren, Press Officer at Amnesty International Sweden, said that waterboarding is a method that is completely unacceptable.
– There are people who have drowned for real when used waterboarding. It is a terribly unpleasant method and is about getting people to believe that they will not survive, she says.
UN Torture Convention establishes that waterboarding is torture and US President Barack Obama has distanced from the interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, which was used during the Bush regime.
– Torture is not allowed under any circumstances, so you can not blame the war on terrorism. For it to have any effect, it must always apply without exception, says Elisabeth Löfgren.
When Expressen.se talking with Tommy Hansson on Sunday afternoon, he says that Amnesty is entitled to his views, but he has considered the advantages and disadvantages in terms of waterboarding.
– This is not a method that you use to felparkerare so to speak, but it’ll be extreme circumstances. I land in that it may be justified to use in very special cases, he said.
He believes that it may be justified to terrorist leaders in the post eflte the September attack on the World Trade Center are examples of people who could be subjected to waterboarding.
Where do you limit on who will shine drowned?
– It can be a difficult EQUILIBRIUM in from. It is up to the security services available in the United States.
The issue of waterboarding is largely a question of principle, it must be possible to apply for Sweden?
– I do not comment on it for my discussion applies only to the United States. There is no method that you want to use, but in extreme circumstances, I can imagine that it may be justified, in rare cases, he said.
Tommy Hansson says that the blog is private and that he have not written post as party politicians.
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