USE OF MUSIC AS AN INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE

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That this House notes and objects to the incessant playing of high volume music by United States interrogators as a form of psychological torture used to break prisoners; further notes that the existence of this practice has been acknowledged by the US's Psychological Operations Company; defends the human rights of all human beings as laid out by the Geneva Convention; and therefore believes that torture, including this practice of using music, is inhumane and a breach of these rights; further believes that the particular practice of using music as an instrument of torture is an infringement of creator's rights; supports the Musician's Union's principled protest, through the Zero dB initiative, against this practice; and urges the Government to exert whatever diplomatic pressure is available to end this practice and the practice of torture in all countries.