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.

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• Guantanamo Force-Feeding Constitutes Torture

  
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  Guantanamo detention constitutes torture, abuse and ill-treatment. Long-term detention compounds it.Force-feeding increases unconscionable pain and suffering. Doing so violates core rule of law principles.Around 130 of 166 Guantanamo detainees refuse food. Theyre hunger striking for justice. They began in February. ...
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• The killing of Mohammed al-Durrah in Gaza became the defining image of the second intifada. Only Israel claims it was all a fake - Independent

  
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  One of the most evocative and shocking episodes of the second Intifada, the shooting of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy by the Israeli army, was staged. Indeed, Mohammed al-Durrah was not even injured in the incident. Those, at least, are the findings of an investigation by the Israeli government, published today, which ...
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• Animal Liberation - Peter Singer

  
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  Shared by:TybieWritten by Peter Singer Edition: 2000 Format(s): PDF Language: English Peter Singer - Animal Liberation (Ecco Press, 2002; original edition 1975). 324 pages. Note: Animal Liberation was revised in 1990, 2002 and 2009; this is the 2002 edition.Reprocessed images from an older scan. Result is good but ...
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• America: A Modern-Day Sparta

  
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  Stephen Lendman Activist Post Permanent war is longstanding policy. America deplores peace. Throughout its history, its waged war annually at home and/or abroad. Today it does so globally. Giving peace a chance is loathed. Direct or proxy wars rage in multiple countries. "Yes we can" reflects Obamas pro-war, ...
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• Effort afoot at public television to deep-six hard-hitting "Nuclear Savage" documentary?

  
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  A new documentary film, Nuclear Savage, by documentary filmmaker Adam Jonas Horowitz, should have been shown on PBS this month, but may be running into resistance by persons unknown at the publicly-funded U.S.-based public-television network that includes World Channel content. A story in this week’s edition of The ...
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• Kennedy’s insistence on right of return prompted Ben-Gurion to rewrite history: They fled ‘of their own free will’

  
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  Incredible piece of reporting on the Nakba at Haaretz from Shay Hazkani, and meaningful at many levels. It shows what the scholar Victor Kattan has documented , that several US presidents were for the right of return. Kennedy wanted several hundred thousand to be allowed to return, and Israel said 20-30,000. And ...
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• Guantanamo Force-Feeding Constitutes Torture

  
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  image source Stephen Lendman Activist Post Guantanamo detention constitutes torture, abuse and ill-treatment. Long-term detention compounds it. Force-feeding increases unconscionable pain and suffering. Doing so violates core rule of law principles. Around 130 of 166 Guantanamo detainees refuse food. Theyre ...
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• Pupils ‘need early porn warnings’

  
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  Young children should hear about the dangers of pornography as soon as they have access to the internet, head teachers say. Follow this link: Pupils ‘need early porn warnings’
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• Briton facing child death charges

  
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  A 48-year-old British man living in France is expected to be formally charged later with killing his two children, aged five and 10. Go here to see the original: Briton facing child death charges
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• UK astro Peake given station date

  
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  UK astronaut Tim Peake is to fly to the International Space Station, launching on a Soyuz rocket in November or December 2015. See the rest here: UK astro Peake given station date
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• Brutal Torture in the Men’s Division of Masanjia Forced Labor Camp (Photo)

  
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  May 20, 2013 | By a Minghui correspondent from Liaoning Province, China ( Minghui.org ) After the Mainland Chinese magazine  Lens  published the article “Walking Out of Masanjia,” it received a lot attention both inside China and abroad. The  New York Times  and  Deutsche Welle  published follow-up ...
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• Abu Qatada expects to be acquitted of terror charges in Jordan, lawyers say

  
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  Treaty between UK and Jordan makes acquittal more likely over tainted charges, court hears Abu Qatada, the radical Islamist cleric, expects to be acquitted of "tainted" terror charges when he voluntarily returns to Jordan, his lawyers have told a court hearing. Danny Friedman, for Abu Qatada, told the Special ...
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• Bearing Witness at Terrorism Trials

  
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• Abu Qatada launches fresh bid to be released from prison – The Independent

  
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  “Radical cleric Abu Qatada will launch a fresh bid for freedom today as he seeks to be released from prison at an immigration tribunal.” Full story The Independent, 20th May 2013 Source: www.independent.co.uk
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• Indifference to great Crimes

  
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  Familiarity breeds indifference, not contempt. There can be no other explanation why those who were in charge of prisons and torture centres and those who commit crimes that fill us with dread do so for long and extended periods of time. In Cleveland some women are captured and held for ten years as shackled ...
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• Dr. Kevin Barrett - "Unfreedom Tower casts a dark shadow over ‘Gulag America’"

  
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  Nearly 1,000 American military bases occupy every corner of the planet. US troops have killed more than a million people in various countries during the past decade. Officially, this is all being done in the name of “freedom.” Yet the USA, once one of the most free countries on earth, is no longer free. It is ...
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• Prisoner Barghouti refuses to drink water after being isolated

  
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  [ PIC 19/05/2013 - 12:26 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Wa’ed Society for Detainees and Ex-detainees said that the Israeli authorities transferred on Friday evening captive leader Abdullah Barghouti, sentenced to 67 life terms, to solitary confinement. Wa’ed said in a statement on Saturday that prisoner Barghouti has been on ...
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• Thieves Stripped Naked and Lynched in Anaji, Ghana

  
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  Two thieves were caught stealing from the residents in Anaji, a village in the Western region of Ghana, Africa. Villagers did not appreciate being stolen from and stripped the thieves naked and subjected them to a little lynching. Compared to most lynchings , these two got off easy. The entire ruckus is very ...
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• 79-Year-Old Kurdish Mother: “I don’t want to die in this prison!”

  
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  The Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan said on the occasion of the international human rights day on 10 December 2012 the following: Protecting and developing human rights, democracy and principles of the state of law have been some of our primary objectives since the day we came into power. Our efforts in those ...
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• Pee - The stain never fades

  
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    “PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.” - Susan Pease Banitt dirtifulmind The stain spread across her crotch anddown her legs. Not sure why, being far past the age when self control islearned , ...
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