Hooded, beaten and deprived of sleep - if this isn't torture what is?

"Forced to listen to constant loud static noise; deprived of sleep, food and water; forced to stand in a stress position and beaten if they fell. Told they were hundreds of feet in the air, despite being near the ground, and thrown out of helicopters."

That's what happened to the so called hooded men. But would you describe it as torture? 

Well the European Court of Human Rights ruled yesterday that their treatment wasn't torture.