Editing Abu Zubaydah (section)

== International Committee of the Red Cross report ==
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In February 2007, the International Committee of the Red Cross concluded a report on the treatment of "14 high-value detainees", who had been held by the CIA and, after September 2006, by the military at Guantanamo.<ref name="ICRC" /> The ICRC described the twelve [[enhanced interrogation techniques]] covered in the OLC memos to the CIA: [[waterboarding|suffocation by water]] (which is described as "torture" by numerous US officials<ref name="Goodman 2008">[http://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/18/the_dark_side_jane_mayer_on Amy Goodman, "'The Dark Side': Jane Mayer on the Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, Interview Transcript"], ''Democracy Now'', July 18, 2008</ref>), prolonged stress standing position, beatings by use of a collar, beating and kicking, confinement in a box, prolonged nudity, sleep deprivation, exposure to cold temperature, prolonged shackling, threats of ill-treatment, forced shaving, and deprivation/restricted provision of solid food.<ref name="ICRC" /> Zubaydah was the only detainee of the 14 interviewed who had been subjected to all 12 of these interrogation techniques.<ref name="ICRC" /> He was also the only one of the 14 detainees to be put into close confinement.<ref name="ICRC" />