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26. Juni 2015 · Torture affects people in so many ways. It’s inhuman: heating cutlasses on a fire and then flogging a person’s back is barbaric. It affects people mentally: it causes madness. They pass out because of the pain and admit to things they never did. What I went through – the torture and being on death-row – affected me in so many ways. It ...
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4. Aug. 2023 · This article reviews the social scientific literature on the causes of and prevention of torture, analyzes its successes and failures, and proposes a way forward. Many researchers have adopted a rational-actor, principal-agent framework, which fails to fully account for the multiple and often irrational motives of actors who work within complex bureaucracies. Researchers have also tended to ...
Amnesty launches the first campaign to “make torture as unthinkable as slavery”. In response to international pressure the UN General Assembly approves its first ever resolution denouncing torture. The UN adopts the Declaration Against Torture on 9 December. This landmark decision is key to creating a legally binding UN Convention against ...
11. Nov. 2015 · Torture in China is used to achieve two main goals: one, to extract confessions and obtain evidence for criminal prosecutions, and the other, to punish. For example, the report No End in Sight details activist Yang Mingyu’s experience, as related by his lawyer. Yang Mingyu had his hand and feet cuffed to a bed for three days in retaliation ...
