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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.

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Updated March 25, 2026 Deportation to Torture
War Crime / Crime Against Humanity Ongoing

Guantanamo Bay Immigrant Detention: Solitary Confinement and Torture Conditions

Immigrants transferred to Guantanamo Bay face conditions amounting to torture: 23+ hour solitary confinement, punishment chairs, physical abuse, and incommunicado detention. ACLU and CCR lawsuits challenge the offshore detention as unconstitutional and beyond the authority of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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