Yes, they were tortured, and I expect that the Main Stream Media will report this extensively and repeatitively without any real explanation of exactly how they were ‘tortured’.
The British service personnel held hostage in Iran said they were blindfolded, bound and threatened with seven years in prison if they didn’t admit they had strayed into Iranian waters.
…Once captured the personnel were subjected to “constant psychological pressure” during their time in captivity and agreed to comply with their captors wishes in order to win their freedom.
At one point they were lined up against a wall while weapons were cocked, making them “fear the worst”. ~telegraph.co.uk
See. They were tortured.
So why doesn’t the article report this fact? Of course, our official (U.S.) definition of torture is: “In the US view, torture has to involve ‘severe pain’, and harsh interrogations do not necessarily amount to torture.” But the MSM definition is not quite so focused and ‘defined’, as it were. The media definition, at least when the torturer is the United States, includes all kinds of “psychological pressure.” Usually reported as torture without actually detailing what would be torture.