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	Torture - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		One of the gayer forms of torture is the tickling of the feet, often using feathers or the back-ends of small furry animals.
		One might think this form of torture is preferable to, for instance, beating, or fire, but this is not the case; the emasculation and humiliation endured during this form of torture is enough to make even the manliest of manly men weep like a little girl, and nobody likes a crybaby.
		This is a particularly cruel form of torture in which the victim is locked inside a crazy, spike-filled, body-shaped chamber and forced to listen to the music of Hilary Duff, or Enya for hours and hours on end.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Torture (1706 words)

	Torture - LoveToKnow 1911
		The principal forms of torture in use were the equuleus, or rack (mentioned as far back as Cicero), 4 the plumbatae, or leaden balls, the ungulae, or barbed hooks, the lamina, or hot plate, the mala mansio, 5 and the fidiculae, or cord compressing the arm.
		Torture could not be inflicted during the forty days of Lent.' Robbers and pirates might be tortured even on Easter day, the divine pardon being hoped for where the safety of society was thus assured.
		By the edict of the inquisitor-general Valdes, in 1561, torture was to be left to the prudence and equity of the judges.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TO/TORTURE.htm (9923 words)

	Can Interrogatory Torture Be Morally Legitimate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The use of force, whether it be a matter of restraint or threat, or the actual imposition of pain, injury, or death, always marks a breakdown in the peace and harmony that ought to characterize human relationships.
		The use of torture has implications beyond the immediate suffering of and harm to the subject, and these implications ought to be considered in the context of Proportionality.
		The use of torture, the justification of which would not be understood or accepted by everyone, might provoke many people to be prepared to endorse other, immoral actions on the basis of a flawed utilitarian analysis that they wrongly believe to justify defensive interrogatory torture.
	www.usafa.af.mil /jscope/JSCOPE03/Kennedy03.html (7725 words)

	Torture report 200
		Torture is inflicted on men, women and children in Cambodia, and many victims receive this treatment at the hands of those who are supposed to protect society: police officers, soldiers, government bodyguards and others in positions of authority.
		When torture cases are brought to their attention, government officials, judges, prosecutors, police and military chiefs usually turn a blind eye, thereby explicitly permitting and implicitly encouraging the use of torture.
		Torturers invariably dehumanise their victims, labelling them as enemies, criminals or possessions, and therefore implicitly justifying barbaric treatment of them, as though they were animals or objects of lesser or no value.
	www.ngoforum.org.kh /Documents/torture_report_2k.htm (7040 words)

	In the Balance \| BioAttack & City Under Siege \| Torture \| Your Turn \| PBS
		Recent memos in the United States have attempted to revise the definition of torture to allow interrogators greater liberty to use a wide variety of methods not previously at their disposal.
		If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice. . . .
		By expressly limiting the use of torture only to the ticking-bomb case and by requiring a highly visible judge to approve, limit, and monitor the torture, it will be far more difficult to justify its extension to other institutions.
	www.pbs.org /inthebalance/terrorism/torture-no-2.html (733 words)

	The United States As Torture Central U.S. sponsors regimes using torture extensively by Edward S. Herman
		So the United States was truly torture central at that time, not by virtue of its own use of torture, but by its sponsorship of regimes that used it extensively.
		Torture within U.S. police stations, jails, and prisons was "astonishingly commonplace" in those years, including electroshock treatment, notoriously so in Chicago where internal city investigations documented "more than fifty incidents of torture committed by police officers" (Paige Bierma, "Torture behind bars, right here in the United States of America," the Progressive, July 1994).
		The New York Times' treatment of the Guantanamo victims' releases was markedly different from that of the London papers and is a throwback to their protective news coverage of U.S.-sponsored torture in the 1960s and 1970s.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Torture/US_Torture_Central.html (2452 words)

	Replies to Iowa uses attack dogs to torture prisoners (Straight Out of the Cornfield)
		According to the report, the use of dogs in cell extraction is permitted in Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, South Dakota and Utah.
		The use of dogs in cell extractions is a clear violation of international human rights law, as codified by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Convention Against Torture or Other Cruel, Degrading or Inhuman Treatment or Punishment.
		In well-managed correctional systems, they are used only in response to an imminent and serious risk to the safety and security of an individual or of the institution.
	mypc.press-citizen.com /blogs/reply.php?id_blogs=4&id_blogposts=367 (1890 words)

	Torture, Imprisonment, and Political Assassination
		The novel is a direct outcry against the imprisonment of those who cared for their country – a strong protest against the torture of those who are innocent of any crime except for love of their country and the courage to defend its aspirations and to dream of a just and better future.
		The novel is darkened by a backdrop of political assassinations of British agents and the torture and arrest of nationalists, such as Ismail Sidqi and Ibrahim Abdulhadi, in the prisons of puppet governments.
		The quartet spans the turbulent times from the departure of the Turks to the advent of the French to the present.
	www.aljadid.com /TortureImprisonmentandPoliticalAssassination.html (2712 words)

	Identifying a torture icon \| Salon.com News
		In an apparent scoop on Saturday, the Times reported that Ali Shalal Qaissi, a former Baath Party member, had been photographed standing on a cardboard box, hooded, with his arms spread, a blanket around his shoulders and electrical wires extending from his hands.
		The documents were among many photos and files obtained by Salon last month, from a uniformed member of the military who spent time at Abu Ghraib and is familiar with the CID probe.
		Ethan Bronner, the deputy foreign editor of the Times, said the newspaper was now investigating the possibility that two people were depicted in the photographs.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/2006/03/14/torture_photo (876 words)

	Mexico: Justice betrayed: Torture in the judicial system - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of the principal reasons why torture is widespread in Mexico is that it is used to obtain ''confessions'' from detainees which are later used by prosecutors as evidence to secure a conviction by a judge.
		Torture is frequently used by the judicial police and prosecutors in the PGR and PGEs as a means to obtain confessions and statements.
		Torture by Mexican law-enforcement officials and members of the army has been widely reported and has been acknowledged by the Mexican authorities, the UN and IACHR, and Mexican and international non-governmental government organisations.
	web.amnesty.org /ai.nsf/Recent/AMR410212001!Open (7883 words)

	Party Till You Drop has everything from sex toys to cigarettes and outdoor raves to absinthe
		Quite to the contrary, this goal is now approaching as man, for the first time in history, has both the knowledge and the opportunity to break forever the dark grip of religious and political oppression and their destructive ethics of human sacrifice and altruism.
		At the same time, prostitution was widespread and the structure of marriage was crumbling as women began revolting against their oppressive "glorified" status.
		At other times, if a ring is worn that is too thin (this can happen if the wearer downsizes from a lower gauge jewelry to a higher), or if no ring is worn at all, an additional stream of urine may come from the hole in the frenulum.
	www.party-till-you-drop.com (12759 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Making Sense of a New Form of Evil
		This quote is from the conclusion of a report issued on July 6 by David Kilgour, the former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia Pacific), and David Matas, a Canadian human rights lawyer, into allegations that large-scale organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners is taking place in China.
		However, the world has been a little slow to react to this news—there are only a handful of reports not from The Epoch Times that deal with these atrocities, where one might have expected this story to become front page news in every major paper in the world.
		Chen Zixiu of Weifang died from torture on February 21 2000.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-8-17/45032.html (3661 words)

	TomDispatch - Tomdispatch: Alfred McCoy on How Not to Ban Torture in Congress
		This disconcerting contrast is but one sign that, under the Bush administration, the United States is moving to publicly legitimate the use of torture, even to the point of twisting this congressional ban on inhumane interrogation in ways that could ultimately legalize such acts.
		It seems to be moving from the wide-ranging but highly secretive tortures wielded by the Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War decades to an open, even proud use of coercive interrogation as a formal weapon in the arsenal of American power, acceptable both to U.S. courts and the American people.
		Even though this "no-touch" psychological form of torture generally did greater lasting damage than its physical variant, it was surrounded by an appealing scientific aura and was, at least in theory, devoid of the obvious signs of brutality that might trouble the public and provide telling evidence for prosecutors.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=57336 (3030 words)

	Blocking Mr. Torture -- In These Times
		When it comes to the pervasive use of torture at Guantánamo’s Camp X-Ray and scores of other secret military prisons around the globe, the media has preferred the term “abuse.” It’s a word that takes the edge off.
		That may be changing with the leak late in November to the New York Times of a confidential report by the International Committee of the Red Cross that said the Bush administration had institutionalized a system that uses “refined and repressive” methods “tantamount to torture” to extract information from prisoners at Guantánamo.
		Torture himself: the man who laid out for the Bush administration the arguments for voiding the Geneva Conventions and end-running the War Crimes Act, thereby providing legal cover for the horrors inflicted on those unfortunate enough to disappear into the new American global gulag.
	www.inthesetimes.com /article/1739 (1203 words)

	Identifying a torture icon \| Salon.com News
		In an apparent scoop on Saturday, the Times reported that Ali Shalal Qaissi, a former Baath Party member, had been photographed standing on a cardboard box, hooded, with his arms spread, a blanket around his shoulders and electrical wires extending from his hands.
		The documents were among many photos and files obtained by Salon last month, from a uniformed member of the military who spent time at Abu Ghraib and is familiar with the CID probe.
		Ethan Bronner, the deputy foreign editor of the Times, said the newspaper was now investigating the possibility that two people were depicted in the photographs.
	salon.com /news/feature/2006/03/14/torture_photo (860 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: North Korea uses poverty, myth to keep nation ready for war
		The North's neighbors, China and South Korea, don't welcome use of their territory as a base for anti-government activities that might ultimately give voice to the suffering of ordinary citizens.
		Bolstering the propaganda is the fact that the government is not afraid to use force against the slightest sign of dissent.
		Schools spend most of their time on the teachings of the two Kims, their biographies and ruling-party history.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2003302379_nkorealife13.html (1440 words)

	Muzafar Avazov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Human Rights Watch recorded his death as "suspicious" with apparent signs of torture, highlighting Uzbekistan's repression of independent Muslims.
		Avazov was imprisoned at Jaslyk Prison, said by the same organization to be "well-known for its harsh conditions and ill-treatment and torture of religious prisoners."
		Medical examiners found severe burns on Avazov's legs, buttocks, lower back and arms, covering 60-70% of his body, which they believed to be the result of immersion in boiling water.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muzafar_Avazov (172 words)

	Tracking the CIA Torture Flights -- In These Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In their new book Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights, A.C. Thompson and Trevor Paglen detail how the CIA transports detainees worldwide.
		The fleet of planes the CIA uses is set up with the basic corporate structures any company is going to have.
		Posted by lbyland on Sep 27, 2006 at 7:18 AM What are they shocked about....Ibyland...This certainly cannot be the first time these people have heard of the free flyer passes, the Bush regime is handing out to some of their more, shall I say...Special Friends…
	www.inthesetimes.com /article/2835 (2333 words)

	CESNUR - Falun Gong Updates, May-July 2005
		At the same time, however, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has taken action to curb their music and banners at protests outside China's embassy and consulates as part of his role in protecting the dignity of foreign missions.
		Members recently had to change their mobile numbers after they were simultaneously bombarded with a series of text and voice messages vilifying Falun Gong.
		News of The Epoch Times' plight came as the deputy director of China's liaison office in Hong Kong attacked Falun Gong, which is banned as an "evil cult" in the mainland.
	www.cesnur.org /2005/falun_02.htm (6407 words)

	Nation: Americans, especially Catholics, approve of torture
		During the mid-1880s as an American missionary to Guatemala, she was tortured by men thought to be connected to the American government.
		By the time she was freed -- she believes because of pressure on American members of Congress to intervene -- she had 111 cigarette burns on her back alone.
		The organization’s mission is to support torture survivors, including the estimated 500,000 living in the United States, and work for the abolition of torture, which the organization says is currently being practiced by more than 150 governments.
	ncronline.org /NCR_Online/archives2/2006a/032406/032406h.htm (1871 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Making Sense of a New Form of Evil
		This quote is from the conclusion of a report issued on July 6 by David Kilgour, the former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia Pacific), and David Matas, a Canadian human rights lawyer, into allegations that large-scale organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners is taking place in China.
		Since that first interview with Peter, The Epoch Times reporting has not only confirmed Peter's initial report but revealed that the horrors at Sujiatun were just the tip of the iceberg, part of a system that extends throughout China.
		However, the world has been a little slow to react to this news—there are only a handful of reports not from The Epoch Times that deal with these atrocities, where one might have expected this story to become front page news in every major paper in the world.
	en.epochtimes.com /news/6-8-17/45032.html (3661 words)

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	www.phrusa.org /research/torture/torchi.html (309 words)

	Uses of torture in recent times - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Russian police is regularly observed practicing torture - including beatings, electric shocks, rape, asphyxiation - in interrogating arrested suspects.
		Russian army is believed to use torture extensively in Chechnya and the surrounding districts, as investigative tool, and as a deterrant/punishment for captured fighters.
		The US Congress recently passed a pro-torture legislation which for the first time legalizes certain methods of torture and allows the Bush administration to intepret the Third Article of the Geneva Convention [36].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uses_of_torture_in_recent_times (5274 words)

	Graphic Violence, Violence and Abuse Information Portal - 2Ruf.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It has led to censorship in extreme cases, and regulation in others, one case being the creation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board in 1994.
		In theatrical performances, films are rated using a motion picture rating system, in part based on the level of graphic violence.
		Television broadcasts are similarly rated using a television rating system.
	www.2ruf.com (276 words)

	Mobissimo Blog
		Every time I cross the San Francisco Bay and look out at the construction of the new Bay Bridge I see about 20 big-ass cranes sitting there and I wonder what it would be like to have sex in one.
		Staying in a private home is a great way to meet the islanders and experience the local culture; however, one should use judgment in choosing accommodations, as not all places are of equal quality.
		This passport-sized assistant is used not only by tourists but also by UN peacekeeping forces, Olympic athletes, and speech therapists who all have needed emergency TP.
	blog.mobissimo.com (1939 words)

	Headlines
		Iraq: The Hidden Story shows the footage used by TV news broadcasts, and compares it with the devastatingly powerful uncensored footage of the aftermath of the carnage that is becoming a part of the fabric of life in Iraq.
		Indonesian protesters tell Bush: You are the terrorist: US President George Bush shrugged off massive protests against his visit to the world's most populous Muslim nation yesterday as a sign of a healthy democracy, as thousands braved heavy rains to call him a war criminal and a terrorist.
		America's media bubble: There used to be a time when the US media wrote the global narrative.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /headlines.htm (1490 words)

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