Abuse of Protesters and Prisoners Highlights Urgent Need to Regulate Torture Tools
December 10, 2020
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The world must act urgently to prohibit the global trade in equipment designed to inflict excruciating pain and injury, Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation said today, ahead of a high-level UN meeting on the ‘torture trade’. In a new report,
“More than three decades after torture was outlawed internationally, people continue to be tortured, often to death, in prisons and detention centers all over the world. It is nonsensical to ban torture while allowing the trade in sinister equipment specifically designed for torture, like spiked batons and leg irons, to continue,” said Patrick Wilcken, Amnesty International’s Head of Business, Security and Human Rights.