“On April 15, 2010, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution which unequivocally states that the prohibition against torture is non-derogable, that it must be protected under all circumstances, and that no states of emergency or claim relating to a war-like condition can ever be advanced as justification. The Resolution explicitly states in paragraph 1 that it: ‘condemns all forms of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including through intimidation which are and shall remain prohibited in any time and at any place, whatsoever and can thus never be justified, and calls upon all States to implement fully the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.’ ”
– M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, Page 76