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Torture stories:
Britain's torture cover-up continues
Nov 20th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
In the government's desperate commitment to cover up British complicity in torture, the drip-drip-drip of evidence seeping out continues. The sixth opinion released by...
Diplomat: Canada handed over Afghans for torture
Nov 19th, 2009 - Boston
TORONTO—Top-ranking Canadian officials ignored evidence that prisoners handed over to Afghanistan's intelligence service a few years ago were tortured, a former Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan said.
Zimbabwe Judge: Torture Can Be Raised In Case
Nov 11th, 2009 - CBS News
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A judge ruled Wednesday in a trial that has shaken Zimbabwe's coalition government that defense lawyers for a top prime minister's aide can raise allegations that the main witness against him was tortured.
Guard Arrested For Torture In Tijuana Prison Riots
Nov 6th, 2009 - CBS News
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) - Mexican police caught a prison official who spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead...
Appeals Court Rejects Suit by Canadian Man Over Detention and Torture Claim
Nov 3rd, 2009 - New York Times
A federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled on Monday that Maher Arar, a Canadian man who claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured, cannot sue for damages because Congress has not authorized such suits.
Torture videos from YouTube:
- Rin on the Rox "Torture"...NEW SINGLE, "TORTURE" on iTunes! www.itunes.com *FYI* This was a HOME MADE VIDEO just to clear that up for everyone who thinks this was supposed to be professionally done. We wanted to have ...
- MythBusters - Water TortureThe MythBusters test the effectiveness of Chinese Water Torture. Probably the only time Kari's not smiling.
- "Torture" - Rin on the Rox...NEW SINGLE, "TORTURE" on iTunes! www.itunes.com HOPE YOU LIKE IT, LOVE IT, BUY IT...WHATEVER, JUST DON'T BURN IT! This song was previously sung by Elise Estrada, we know that so please, no ...
- Unit 731 Japanese Torture...BrainMind.com Unit 731 Japanese Torture & Human Medical Experiments. This "docu-dramatization" includes shocking photos to illustrate and archival photos to document and educate. A documentary film by Rhawn Joseph, Ph ...
Torture from WikiPedia:
Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is:
...any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him, or a third person, information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in, or incidental to, lawful sanctions.—UN Convention Against Torture
In addition to state-sponsored torture, individuals or groups may be motivated to inflict torture on others for similar reasons to those of a state; however, the motive for torture can also be for the sadistic gratification of the torturer, as was the case in the Moors murders.
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