NO TORTURE!!! THE ACTION OR PRACTICE OF INFLICTING SEVERE PAIN
ON SOMEONE AS A PUNISHMENT OR TO FORCE THEM TO DO OR SAY SOMETHING,
OR FOR THE PLEASURE OF THE PERSON INFLICTING THE PAIN. By: Raven
Perring
http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-human-rights/videos/no-torture.html
Slide 2 So Horrible! A MILLION kids and adults are tortured every
day. Torture occurs mostly in detention; but there are other places
too. Slide 3 Abacination Beatings and physical violence Blinding
with light Boiling Bone breaking Branding Castration Chinese water
torture Choking/Strangling Crushing Cutting Disfigurement Drowning
Dunking Flagellation Flaying Foot roasting Foot whipping
Force-feeding Genital mutilation/forced circumcision Hamstringing
Kneecapping Keelhauling Mutilation Oxygen deprivation Pressure
points Rat torture Riding the Rail Sexual assault Sawing Scalping
Sleep deprivation Sound (extremely high volumes, dynamic range, low
frequency, high pitched noise, intended to interfere with rest,
cognition and concentration). Starvation Reverse hanging and
Palestinian hanging Stress positions Hanging from a metal bar.
Tarring and feathering Thumbscrew (torture) Tickle torture Tooth
extraction Walling Water cure Waterboarding Slide 4 * The Medieval
period was violent and blood thirsty. * Torture chambers and
dungeons were included in many castles of the era. * Different
types of torture and punishment were used depending on the victim's
crime and social status. * Torture was a legitimate way to obtain
testimonies and confessions from suspects for use in legal
inquiries and trials during the Middle Ages. Slide 5 * Law or
custom did not prescribe any fixed rules for the treatment of
prisoners who faced torture and punishment. * Torture as a form of
punishment was seen as a totally legitimate means for justice to
extract confessions, or obtain the names of accomplices or other
information about the crime. Middle Ages Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=jYtNKza9HGc Slide 6 Under Common
Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, acts of violence to life and
person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel
treatment, outrages upon personal dignity, [and] in particular,
humiliating and degrading treatment are prohibited. In the United
Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which the United States ratified
in 1994, torture is defined as "any act by which severe pain or
suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted
on a person by or at the instigation of a public official in order
to obtain information or a confession or to punish the person for
an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having
committed, or [for] intimidating or coercing him or a third person
for any reason based on discrimination of any kind. Slide 7 Op-Ed
article by activist and teacher Alise Mofrei recounts brutality and
abuse she suffered as political prisoner in Syria following her
arrest at demonstration; observes that some 200,000 people have
been detained in a similar fashion since 2012, enduring regular
exposure to torture that can often be lethal; calls on
international community to resume pressure on Pres. Bashar al Assad
to end detentions, disappearances and killings. Panetta Review,
showed that agency had repeatedly overstated worth of intelligence
gained from brutal interrogations of some of its detainees;
contents of review, ordered in 2009 by CIA's director at the time,
Leon E Panetta, is central to arguments over Senate Intelligence
Committee's conclusions about use of torture. Joe Nocera Op-Ed
column offers reaction to Guantanamo Diary, manuscript by
Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi that is being offered
in redacted form following legal battle; says diary documents,
unjust detention, during which he suffered torture, sexual abuse
and humiliation so severe that he finally offered a false
confession. Former kickboxing world champion Zakaria Moumni files
lawsuit against Moroccan officials for allegedly using war against
terrorism and harsh Central Intelligence Agency tactics as cover
for torture and atrocity; human rights groups say Morocco is
attacking opposition by using former CIA interrogation sites in the
country to torture dissenters; Moroccan authorities deny
allegations. Senate Intelligence Committee's report on Central
Intelligence Agency excesses since the Sept 11 terrorist attacks is
unlikely to result in any significant change in how the CIA fits
into the operations of America's secret wars; Congressional, White
House and public support for clandestine operations are all strong
in an era of deep fears over global terrorism and the rise of the
brutal Islamic State. Slide 8 Reasons for torture can include
punishment, or revenge More than 4 in 10 fear of torture if token
in custody. 80% of people think Brazil is the #1 torture place. 36%
of people believe that torture can sometimes be justified to gain
information that may protect the public think if they go to custody
they will be safe from torture Torture in hands of prison, police
and army men are being practiced in at least 24 countries Torture
could become series pain Slide 9 You with ME Torture NEEDS to
STOP!!!!!!!! Torture NEEDS to STOP!!!!!!!!
