Portal:Torture
Torture is the intentional causing of somebody experiencing pain or agony.
Methods of torture
edit- Mediæval Instruments of Torture, as it appeared in the April 1892 Popular Science Monthly
Verse
editModern references
edit- Convention against Torture, ratified by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1984; entry into force 26 June 1987
- Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, enacted by the United States Congress on March 12, 1992
- FBI e-Mail concerning torture at Guantanamo Bay, 2003
- Justice Department Memo on Torture, 2003 by John Yoo, American memo which concluded that neither American nor International Law could affect the President's "wartime authority" to allow the torture of combatants seized during the War on Terror
- Translation of Detainee's Verbal Statement regarding Torture made by Abd Al Aziz Sayer Al Shammeri, ISN 217, on 28 Apr 05
Other
edit- A Survival of Torture, as it appeared in the May 1897 Popular Science Monthly