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#punishment chair

A restraint device used in detention facilities where individuals are immobilized in a chair for extended periods. Documented at immigration detention facilities as a form of cruel and degrading treatment.

1 incident

Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation

Guantanamo Bay Immigrant Detention: Solitary Confinement and Ill-Treatment

Immigrants transferred to Guantanamo Bay face conditions that Human Rights Watch says may amount to ill-treatment prohibited under international law: isolation for up to 23 hours a day, punitive restraint in a chair, and incommunicado detention. ACLU and CCR lawsuits challenge the offshore detention as unconstitutional and beyond the authority of the Immigration and Nationality Act.