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  • Torture in Bahrain — In 2005, the United Nations Committee Against Torture reported in a judgement that there is no systematic torture in Bahrain since it had started the implementation of reforms in 2001. [http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/CAT.C.CR.34.BHR.En?… …   Wikipedia

  • torture — torturable, adj. torturedly, adv. torturer, n. torturesome, adj. torturingly, adv. /tawr cheuhr/, n., v., tortured, torturing. n. 1. the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or… …   Universalium

  • Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition — The Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International (TASSC) is the only organization founded by and for torture survivorsFact|date=March 2008. The mission of TASSC is to end the practice of torture wherever it occurs and to… …   Wikipedia

  • Torture — Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is 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,… …   Wikipedia

  • Torture murder — is a loosely defined term to describe the process used by murderers who kill their victims by slowly torturing them. Fact|date=February 2007 Legal positionOne of the criteria for a judgment of Murder in the first degree in the laws of the state… …   Wikipedia

  • Uses of torture in recent times — Torture, the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain upon an individual to extract information, a confession or as a punishment, is prohibited by international law and illegal in most countries. However, it is still used by many… …   Wikipedia

  • Torture during the Algerian War — The French Armed Forces made a systematic and indiscriminate use of torture during the Algerian War of Independence (1954 62), creating a public controversy which is far from having been stifled today. Although the Algerian National Liberation… …   Wikipedia

  • torture — 1 noun 1 (C, U) an act of deliberately hurting someone in order to force them to tell you something, to punish them, or to be cruel: He died after five days of excruciating torture. 2 (C, U) severe physical or mental suffering: Hearing her… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • torture — noun 1》 the action or practice of inflicting severe pain as a punishment or a forcible means of persuasion. 2》 great suffering or anxiety. verb subject to torture. Derivatives torturer noun Origin ME: via Fr. from late L. tortura twisting,… …   English new terms dictionary

  • Psychology of torture — The psychological effects associated with torture, or the threat of torture, can be severe. The psychological suffering coupled with physical pain affects the torture subject and serves the torturer s (conscious) interests. The torturer can also… …   Wikipedia

  • Medical torture — (also known as a medical interrogation) describes the involvement and sometimes active participation of medical professionals in acts of torture, either to judge what victims can endure, to apply treatments which will enhance torture, or as… …   Wikipedia

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