stress positions
Painful forced stances
Stress positions are body postures that become painful when held for extended periods—standing with arms raised overhead, squatting against a wall, kneeling on hard surfaces.
The term appears primarily in discussions of interrogation and torture, where forcing detainees to maintain such positions causes suffering without leaving visible marks.
The report documented the use of stress positions at the detention facility.
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
- enhanced interrogationEuphemism for abusive questioning
- interrogationFormal, probing examination
- Guantanamo BayUS military installation, Cuba
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
Abu Ghraib · strain · contortion · cramped · kneeling · standing · wall · squat · arms raised · arms · painful · physical pain · endurance · fatigue · muscle fatigue · muscles · forced · holding
stress positionsrelaxation
State of being unwound
lying down · reclining · massage therapy · corpse pose · savasana
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