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President Donald Trump has claimed that torture 鈥渁bsolutely鈥� works. But what evidence is there of this? And can its use ever be justified?

In his first TV interview as US President, Donald Trump claimed that torture 鈥渁bsolutely鈥� works and said the US should 鈥渇ight fire with fire.鈥�

But what evidence is there that torture is an effective method of obtaining valuable intelligence? And can the use of torture ever be justified?

Becky Milligan hears from a former interrogator who worked at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and now calls himself a torturer, a former political prisoner who was tortured in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran, and a neuroscientist who has studied the effects of torture on the brain.

(Photo:Man sitting in chair with hands tied together behind his back with a bucket on the floor. Credit: Rommel Canlas/Shutterstock)

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