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, in prisons and detention centers all over the world. It is nonsensical to ban torture while allowin...
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