The United Nations special rapporteur on torture said on Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump needs to acknowledge that the extreme interrogation technique known as waterboarding is torture and therefore absolutely prohibited.
Meanwhile, draft executive orders have been circulated by the White House that would renegotiate the U.S. relationship with the U.N., including enacting “at least a 40 percent overall decrease” in remaining United States funding toward international organizations.
The Trump administration is a strong supporter of resuming methods of torture such as waterboarding that were terminated by the preceding Obama administration and widely considered to have been war crimes.
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