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Torture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

...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 ...

Torture and the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Torture in the United States include documented and alleged cases inside the United States and outside the border by government personnel. Note that while some are, not all of such ...

Torture (Harper's Magazine)

Dec 2006: Amount a cable TV reporter paid a former Army interrogator to waterboard him in July: $800 Minutes into the waterboarding that a producer decided he had to stop it: 24

Torture | TPMMuckraker

Seven former CIA directors have sent a letter to President Obama, urging him to overturn Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to appoint a torture prosecutor.

Torture - Inquisition - Death Penalty - Exhibition of European ...

Exhibition in San Francisco of European Instruments of torture and Capital Punishment from the middle ages to the present, from the collection of the Criminal Medieval Museum of ...

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See: badger, cruelty, endanger, inflict, infliction, irritate, mistreat, pique, plague, prey, punish. TORTURE, punishments. A punishment inflicted in some countries on supposed ...

Torture - Gawker

Misty Waterboarded Memories of the Way We Were Tortured Iraqi Shoe Hurler: Adios, Iraq Great, We Are Still Having the 'But Did Torture Work' Debate CIA Not Happy That They Might ...

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American Civil Liberties Union :

The United States must end the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody and restore faith in America's commitment to human rights at home and around the world.

Boehner: Memos Outline "Torture Techniques"

While cable news outlets and major newspapers continue to use euphemisms such as "harsh interrogation tactics" to describe the Bush administration's approach to intelligence ...

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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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Boy claims he was tortured and kept in closet for 4 years

A 14-year-old boy has told US authorities he escaped from a home where he had been kept for four-and-a-half years. The American teenager claims he spent most of that time locked...

Music used in tortures

Oct. 22: Sideshow: Musicians such as REM, the Roots and Pearl Jam are calling on the government to release the names of all songs used in the name of torture. Some of the tunes...

'Torture documents' can be seen

The High Court has ruled that US intelligence documents containing details of the alleged torture of a former UK resident can be released.Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed, 31, who...

Torture???

ab_ova_here

Do you really think our govt will want to live up to it's democracy. Sure it's against the law to torture people but we teach soldiers to do it all the time. The way soldiers are trained, th...

How is waterboarding torture according to the definition of it below?

Mr. Bigglesworth

The same way it was defined as torture under American Law since WWII and the same way it is ruled torture under the Geneva Conventions.

where can i find information on torture/punishment during the French Revolution?

moose

Ah, but the king outlawed torture. But then, the king was dead. As Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, and a pile of others so well described, prisons themselves were torture aplenty.

What countries use torture and interrogration still today ?

Alicia M

According to Human Rights Watch, www.hrw.org, the current list consist of China, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Indonesia, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, Isreal Pakistan, North Korea, Morocca, Nepal Russia, Sryia, Uganda ...

Whats the difference between punishment and torture?

curious_inquisitor

Punishment is done for correction or as retribution for a wrongdoing. Torture is done specifically to cause suffering, usually severe suffering. However, torture is also a subjective concept and to a ...