https://archive.is/BYOpm

The case was then referred to the European Court of Human Rights, which astoundingly ruled two years later that while the Five Techniques were “inhuman and degrading”, and breached Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, they did not amount to torture. In 2014, after it was revealed British government ministers had expressly greenlit use of the Five Techniques in Northern Ireland, Dublin asked the ECHR to review its decision. Four years later, the Court declined.

Considering the EU is a kangaroo court, its not a surprise.

Imagine if there were Western troops captured and facing such treatment. Obviously there is a big dooble standard here.

The declassified British Army Intelligence Corps report notes many foreign countries “show considerable interest” in the Five Techniques, with students from the US, Netherlands, Jordan, Belgium, Germany, Norway and Denmark regularly attending training sessions convened by London. “Our European allies look to the UK for advice…our very simple system is admired,” the report boasts. Which surely explains why the Five Techniques cannot be formally recognised by the most influential and powerful human rights court in the world.

In other words, this is widespread across West.