where is torture mostly used in the world today?
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China.\n\nNo government will admit using torture, but it goes on in almost every country. The important point is that Is the use of torture limited with low-rank people-isolated cases? Or Is the use of torture a certain systemic policy?\n\nI like colorful and interesting face of Chinese culture. China is a great country with a remarkable history. However, deep rooted torture culture has a considerable place in that greatness and torture still remains widely in use in China.\n\n“ Amnesty International’s 2001 report on torture in China documents its use at all levels of society: Torture is widespread and systemic, committed in the full range of state institutions, from police stations to ‘re-education through labor’ camps, as well as in people’s homes, workplaces and in public. Torture is carried out by police and other security officials, tax and fine collectors, judges, prosecutors, court clerks, party leaders and leaders of villages………..Police routinely arrest and torture those they suspect of prostitution or vagrancy…… …In Tibet and in Xinjang Uighur Autonomous Region ( XUAR), political dissidents are routinely tortured.”  (2003, History of Punishment, Lewis Lynos)\n\nMost of the European countries and USA has also an ugly torture background not only regarding the dark age or during slavery or colonialism but in the recent history also. But at least in these countries,today, there is a certain effort to put an end (though nowadays I am quite doubtful about it because of latest USA policy ) \n\nAnyway, according to me, China still seems to be the country that torture mostly used and unfortunately, seems to be unwilling about producing a determined policy and showing an effort to prevent it.\n\nWorld Report 2006 / China\nHuman Rights Watch\nhttp://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/01/18/china12270.htm\n\n\nChina torture 'still widespread' \nBBC News /2 December 2005 \nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4491026.stm\n\n\nTorture - A Growing Scourge in China\nAmnesty International / 12 February 2001\nhttp://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engASA170042001?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRIES%5CCHINA\n\n\nCountry Reports: China and Tibet\nHuman Rights Watch\nhttp://www.hrw.org/doc?t=asia&c=china
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Before you write your paper, make sure that you have the facts.\n\nThe press sells papers by exaggerating the issues. Guantanamo was an excellent example.  While the inmates were humiliated, they weren't tortured.  The accusations still spring up, however, and the UN is using the accusation to bash the US.\n\nAdditionally, the UN has determined that force feeding prisoners that go on a hunger strike is torture.  So, if you feed them, it's torture.  If you don't and they starve, it's torture.\n\nFinally, prisoners will lie about treatment because it's a form of political power they can use while incarcerated.
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Yes, I'm pretty sure that Americans do torture people from time to time.  I think it's mostly in retaliation for the atrocities committed by the enemy, and although I think it's human nature and understandable for our people to do things like that, I also think it's important for our soldiers to try to hold themselves to a higher standard than the Muslim animals who perpetrate such acts against us.  It's hard not to exact revenge against pigs like them, but it's important that our servicemen and women try to adhere to a higher, more honorable standard  than the enemy.  It's what distinguishes us from the so-called "people" we are fighting against.
825439
I don't agree on any country turning their backs on another holocaust (that is what is happening in Darfur). As the most powerful nations we owe it to help these people get out of the suffering and torture. If we turn our heads away we are no different than those who torture because we see it and did nothing. We cannot afford to do nothing and say we are fighting for peace and stabilization in Iraq.
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because if you get the right lawyer, you can redefine anything.  Remember, the USA doesn't torture if we can redefine the word torture to mean only what causes death or pain associated with death.  Then you can half drown someone all day and it's not torture.\n\nSo if a lawyer decides that a man whose co-worker is a terrorist must have some information that is important, he can be classified as whatever they need to torture that hypothetical information out of him.
230988
Even if we put a price on human lives, torture is the destruction of all that it means to be human to remove a persons dignity and rights, to make them become nothing, to pay no respect to life, is it now worth it.
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Ya know, public corporal punishment used to be executed in this country, the crime level was lower but there were also a lot less people living in the country. I am not sure that is a good idea, but something has to be done, the crime rate is out of control. What's sad I think is that corporal punishment might work, but it would be a media circus and then in turn be useless, there has to be a better answer!
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BECAUSE WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE BETTER THAN THAT.  AND IF WE DO IT, IT JUST GIVES THEM MORE OF AN EXCUSE TO TORTURE.  AND YOU WILL SAY ANYTHING, ANY LIE, UNDER TORTURE JUST TO GET IT TO STOP.  SO IT DOESN'T WORK ANYWAY.  Get it?
633800
If your leaders approve of torture (I assume you're from the middle east somewhere), there's no need to explain it.  We've seen videos of beheadings, and torture carried out by your kind and most of us get the message.  My leaders don't believe in torture, but they won't back down from a fight either.  Besides if putting the screws to a militant islamic terrorist saves just one airborne ranger wouldn't it be worth it?
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Okay, Torture is never right, and American should not support it or "contract out" the torture with another state.  That said, we should be open to information passed to us by other countries.  MOST middle eastern countries allow and encourage torture, so do we have no allies at all?  Tough ethical question, no real answer.
794186
Yes I am concerned, but Congress rolled over and it is legal to torture....which I think makes us all the more unsafer. Think of a soldier captured and getting tortured.
86570
Comparative sufferring is beside the point.  Torture was reprehensible but NOT UNEXPECTED from the likes of Saddam Hussein.  Torturous abuse at Abu Ghraib was reprehensible and NOT TO BE EXPECTED from the beacon of human rights, dignity, and respect that is my beloved United States of America.
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Yes.\n\nPeople are held there without trial.  They are not given any legal rights including the right to know why they are being held, the charges against them, the length of time they have to stay there, or the right to defend themselves with proper legal process.\n\nOn top of that there have been numerous allegations of mistreatment and torture.\n\nSounds like a concentration camp to me.
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This is what the Washington Post says:\n\nA U.N. anti-torture panel today issued a rebuke of Bush administration counter-terrorism policies today, calling for the closing of the Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba and a halt to the transfer of suspected terrorists to countries where they may face torture.\n\n...\n\nThe U.N. committee, made up of nine experts, urged the Bush administration to establish a federal law criminalizing torture and to eliminate some of its most controversial interrogation techniques, including sexual humiliation, the use of dogs to induce fear and "water boarding," a practice that involves simulating the sensation of near-drowning.
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No, sir, we don't live in the ancient times.  Nowadays that's considered cruel and unusual punishment.\n\nYeah, but the constitution says they are free from cruel and unusual punishment.
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I think the worst psychological torture I can imagine would have to be the ancient Chinese/Japanese water torture technique. There is a physical aspect to this because what they do is put your forehead underneath a continually dripping tap and this goes on for so long that your mind gets tricked into thinking that the water bores a hole into your head feeling like it is being eroded away slowly...now personally i wouldn't want to find myself in that situation.
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Torture by any other name, is still torture.\n\nSometimes a cigar, is just a cigar.