waterboarding

/waw-ter-bawr-ding, ‐bohr‐, wot-er‐/US // ˈwɔ tərˌbɔr dɪŋ, ‐ˌboʊr‐, ˈwɒt ər‐ //UK // (ˈwɔːtəˌbɔːdɪŋ) //

水刑,水刑罚,水刑刑罚

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a harsh interrogation technique in which water is poured onto the face and head of the immobilized victim so as to induce a fear of drowning.

A number of Japanese soldiers were criminally charged and convicted for waterboarding and otherwise torturing prisoners.
The U.S. took a more serious view of waterboarding when it was done to Americans in World War II.
They might have scored all that dough if word of the waterboarding had not leaked.
I know of the waterboarding of the three guys pursuant to the August 2002 program.
But there were no beatings, no waterboarding, no rough stuff at all.