14 DAY TRIAL // It's being reported that the CIA used music from the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers to torture prisoners in a black site prison at Guantanamo Bay back in 2012.
The news came about from US officials under the cover of anonymity, speaking to Al Jazeera. These officials confirmed that some of the techniques had been used by the CIA during the George Bush administration as part of the declassification process on its “enhanced interrogation procedures” being used in the War on Terror, following the 9/11 attacks.
Part of the torture technique that was used on the prisoners was blasting the songs of the Californian band on repeat, as it was revealed in the Senate Intelligence Committee report that a man named Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn Abu Zubaydah was subjected to the technique between May and July 2012 in the prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Among some of the other techniques that were used on Abu Zubaydah were stuffing him into a pet crate and shackling him by his wrists to the ceiling of his cell. This was all on top of blasting him continuously with loud rock music.
This isn't the first time such a report surfaces, in which rock music is used as a torture device. Also this year, industrial band Skinny Puppy resorted to actually sending an invoice to the US government after it was revealed that their music had been used in a similar fashion at the same Guantanamo Bay prison.