It also documented the use of unauthorized techniques — like mock executions, threats to family members and inflicting waterboarding — more often than the department had approved.
Those potential violations included accounts of burning, electrocution, mock executions, threats to detainee's families, sexual assault and "forced exposure to pornography".
On Friday evening, a Kremlin media spokesman issued a remarkable statement saying the government regarded the guerrillas' execution threats as real, but as "overdramatized and exaggerated".
They say his isolation, and interrogation techniques amounting to torture (stress positions, hooding and execution threats), have made their client unfit to stand trial and take part in his own defence.
According to a dossier sent to the ICC last September and obtained by VICE News, the alleged abuses included burning, electrocution, mock execution, threats to the families of detainees, sexual assault, and "forced exposure to pornography".
Other forms of alleged abuse between 2003 and 2008 include sexual assault, mock executions, and threats of rape, death, and torture.
He speaks of beatings and other forms of physical torture, and of the extreme psychological pressure to which his jailers subjected him to force a confession, including mock executions and threats to his family.
She said Judge Roberts's ruling that detailed her husband's torture -- including beatings that resulted in a skull fracture and broken nose, as well as mock executions and threats of castration -- had been "a tremendous gift" to her husband.
Issued by the group's foreign language propaganda wing, the al-Hayat Media Centre, the video combined footage of the Charlie Hebdo shootings and graphic depictions of executions with a threat that "soon, very soon, the blood will spill like an ocean".
If execution of a threat would be irrational, then the coercer must use some technique to precommit to its execution, or else demonstrate irrationality (or something like it) so as to make the threat credible (see Schelling 1956).
