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Abuse of Protesters and Prisoners Highlights Urgent Need to Regulate Torture Tools – Amnesty International USA

Abuse of Protesters and Prisoners Highlights Urgent Need to Regulate Torture Tools December 10, 2020 Share Share The world must act urgently to prohibit the global trade in equipment designed to inflict excruciating pain and injury, Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation said today, ahead of a high-level UN meeting on the ‘torture trade’. In a new report, “More than three decades after torture was outlawed internationally, people continue to be tortured, often to death,...
Saudi Arabia Michael Crowley Katsyaryna Novikava Patrick Wilcken Alliance For Amnesty International

UK should commit to global ban on torture equipment as part of Brexit

Robust controls are needed on the trade in policing equipment such as handcuffs, pepper spray and Tasers © Vernon Yuen/NurPhoto/Getty Images UK set to leave EU system overseeing ban on torture equipment  UN meeting today will discuss global regulations needed to combat torture trade ‘The UK’s torture trade controls could be left weakened and diminished in the future’ - Kate Allen ‘It is nonsensical to ban torture while allowing the trade in sinister equipment specifically designed f...
Saudi Arabia United Kingdom Michael Crowley Kate Allen Patrick Wilcken Amnesty International

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