torture

Torture is a willful infliction of pain as a means of procuring information from a prisoner of war. It is specifically used as method of interrogation wherein the prisoner is forced to succumb to physical and or psychological anguish.

There are various methods of torture, including sleep and sensory deprivation, sensory overload, physical and psychological pain, humiliation, imposed starvation and asphyxiation.

The act of torture is strictly forbidden by the United Nations Convention against Torture and other international regulatory bodies. The effectiveness of torturing prisoners is also a dubious prospect as throughout history, prisoners have confessed to a variety of allegations as a means to suspend their pain.

Many have protested the use of torture as an interrogation tactic, and argued for the violation of ethics and morality in the deliberate attempt to cause suffering as a means of gain information.

Original Technorati articles tagged “torture”

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• in Politics
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• We just think you are guilty so you must be detained indefinitely.

  
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• 17 Year Old Student Pedro Aguilera Beaten by Riot Police in Chile

  
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• Bahrain officials identify and arrest members of February 14 Movement

  
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• Muslim landlord torture Christian women and parade them nude in village

  
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• Britain’s legacy of torture

  
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  David M. Anderson writes: The British do not torture. At least, that is what we in Britain have always liked to think. But not anymore. In a historic decision last week, the British government agreed to compensate 5,228 Kenyans who were tortured and abused while detained during the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s. Each ...
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• Hey everyone … it’s a Kindle Torture Test!

  
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• Atoning for the Sins of Empire

  
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  David Anderson has an interesting op-ed in the NY Times : THE British do not torture. At least, that is what we in  Britain  have always liked to think. But not anymore. In a  historic decision  last week, the British government agreed to compensate 5,228 Kenyans who were tortured and abused while detained ...
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• VIDEO: Samsung releases official Galaxy S4 torture test

  
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