Torture TV

The Guardian reports that Britain's Channel 4 is rolling out a new TV show:

Using an east London warehouse and declassified internal documents obtained from US sources, programme-makers mocked up conditions as they are inside Guantánamo, before subjecting seven volunteers to some of the milder forms of torture alleged to have been used by US authorities.

The programme exposed the volunteers, three of whom are Muslim, to 48 hours of "torture lite" including sleep deprivation, the use of extreme temperatures and "mild" physical contact.

No word on the possibility of a second show subjecting volunteers to some of the milder forms of murder alleged to have been used by Al Qaeda terrorists.