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

So Horrible! A MILLION kids and adults are tortured every day. Torture occurs mostly in detention; but there are other places too.

 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

* 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.

* 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 ?v=jYtNKza9HGc

 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.”

 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.

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 ¾ 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

You with ME Torture NEEDS to STOP!!!!!!!! Torture NEEDS to STOP!!!!!!!!