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were arguing that sending him to Germany to be prosecuted would amount to torture, in his condition. "'This is nothing less than a grotesque debasement of the word 'torture,' a characterization that makes a mockery of the terrible suffering inflicted on genuine victims of torture at places like the Sobibor extermination center,' prosecutors wrote. " http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/04/john_demjanjuks_halted_deporta.html
Those prosecutors seem to take genuine torture seriously. Or maybe they only do so when it helps their side of a case.
