Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for ...
And we fight for justice for victims of torture. Like Moses Akatugba, who spent 10 years on death row in Nigeria following his conviction for stealing three ...
Why do governments torture? Governments often use national security as a pretext for torturing people. In Cameroon for example, Amnesty has documented how the ...
Sometimes authorities torture a person to extract a confession for a crime, or to get information from them. Sometimes torture is simply used as a punishment ...
Committee against Torture (CAT) · Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment · Subcommittee on Prevention of ...
The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the ...
and rape. Second, violence is read as pornographic. Critics allege that torture ... indicted with including 'gore for gore's sake' (Kermode, 2008a), 'nasty.
The perfect marriage of Craig (Jesse Metcalfe - Desperate Housewives) and Elise Landry (Erika Christensen - Six Degrees, Flight Plan) is suddenly shattered when ...
The prohibition against torture is a bedrock principle of international law. Torture, as well as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, is banned at all ...
This is a story of a group of men and women who take great delight and sexual pleasure in the ownership, abuse, and humiliation of others. Their organization is ...