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Torture

Torture

Torture is the act by which severe pain is inflicted upon a person to bring about a confession. It is also used as a form of punishment.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 11: Members of the organization Witness Against Torture, some of them wearing orange prison jump suits with handcuffs and a hood over their heads, and other participants gather during a demonstration urging the government to close down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, in Lafayette Park outside the White House January 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Protesters carry on a 92-hour vigil in a protest of the 10th anniversary of the arrival of the first group of detainees to arrive at the US military facility.

Russian Federation ambassador Valery Loshchinin gestures during a special session of the UN Human Rights Council to discuss the findings of an independent report on Syria which charts murder and torture by security forces in their crackdown on anti-regime protesters, on December 2, 2011 at the United Nations office in Geneva. The Commission of Inquiry on Syria, Paulo Pinheiro, said they had gathered a solid body of evidence showing children were among the victims of murder and torture carried out by state forces following orders from the top of the President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, Paulo Pinheiro gestures during a special session of the UN Human Rights Council to discuss the findings of an independent report on Syria which charts murder and torture by security forces in their crackdown on anti-regime protesters, on December 2, 2011 at the United Nations office in Geneva. According to reliable sources, to date, 307 children were killed by state forces. November was the deadliest month so far with 56 children killed,' the chairman of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, Paulo Pinheiro, told a special session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Radhia Nasraoui, (C), president of an anti-torture association, lawyer and defender of human rights and a candidate for the October 23 election poses as she campaigns ahead of the elections on October 18, 2011 in Tunis. Tunisians go to the polls on October 23, 2011 to elect the body whose main task will be to write a new constitution for the north African country, which has been under interim rule since a massive uprising that led in January to the ouster of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who had ruled for 23 years.

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