heightened interrogation

heightened interrogation
   torture
   As authorized by the Nazis and other authoritarian regimes:
    Down in the cellar the Gestapo was licensed to practise what the Ministry of Justice called 'heightened interrogation'. (R. Harris, 1992)

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