UN: Waterboarding should be prosecuted as torture

February 8, 2008
UN: Waterboarding should be prosecuted as torture

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding and
used by the United States qualifies as torture, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday.

"I would have no problems with describing this practice as falling under the prohibition oftorture," the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, told a news conference inMexico City.