Why waterboarding is tortureUS reservations to the United Nations Convention Against Torture define torture as “any act by which serious pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is inflicted on a person for the purpose of obtaining information from an individual. person." Waterboarding fits this definition very well. In the article "How to do it", the phenomenon of simulating drowning is described as filling the upper respiratory system with water, causing physical and mental pain. This makes the person being tortured feel like they are drowning without actually dying from drowning. For the person experiencing it, it can be even worse, because the article states that “his sufferings must be those of a man. who drowns, but who cannot drown,” so it never ends. Thus, even if the person is not in real physical danger, the panic caused by this method of interrogation causes both physical suffering and. great psychological suffering In the definition of torture, it is said that it is torture, that it causes physical or mental suffering, and water boarding does both! that...