Resistance to interrogation

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Resistance to interrogation, RTI or R2I is a type of military training to soldiers to prepare them, after capture by the enemy, to resist interrogation techniques such as humiliation and torture. The trainees undergo practices such as hooding, sleep deprivation, time disorientation, prolonged nakedness, sexual humiliation and deprivation of warmth, water and food. Many of these techniques are against international law if used in interrogations. In such interrogation sessions, the subjects must maintain dead silence regardless of the practice being inflicted on them except when asked for one or more pieces of information that are in accordance with Article 17 of the Third Geneva Convention. Under that protocol four pieces of information have to be provided whenever requested: name, rank, serial number and date of birth. Both the subjects and the practitioner have a right to insist on a return to unit every hour. Standard RTI for most special military branches of American and European governments...

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