For decades, President Isaias Afewerki has led Eritrea with an iron fist. There is no legislature, no non-governmental organisations or media outlets or even a judiciary. There is a harsh system of conscription which sees every Eritrean serve for an indefinite period often lasting around 10 years. Whilst in service, Eritreans are subjected to treatment which has been characterised as enslavement and attempts to avoid national service has led to imprisonment and torture.
We have evidence that women and men exercising their rights to participate in political or human rights activism have frequently been detained and tortured by the state to silence any political opposition.
Read more about torture in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was woken from sleep for the purpose of the rape and taken out of the room she was detained in. She thinks that three different soldiers were involved and she would be raped by two of them at any one time. She was pushed onto her knees and raped vaginally and anally. She was also raped orally. There have been a variety of human rights abuses permitted by the former Sudanese government of Omar al-Bashir over his year rule.
In particular, we have evidence of torture committed from after the Darfuri war under the premise of non-Arab ethnic cleansing. More recently, protests in early calling for Omar al-Bashir to step down led to a new torrent of oppression with government forces detaining, torturing, and killing scores of civilians. Since then, al-Bashir relinquished power and the military council formed a transitional government with the main opposition coalition. Where I lived in Sudan young boys like me would be forced into the army, they made you kill your own family.
The boys in my village refused so the army took us. I was burnt, beaten, locked up on my own. I still have the scars. I was just crying for my mum every day. For years, there has been authoritarian rule in Ethiopia where torture has been a staple of the government. Attempts to claim a wide range of rights, including land rights or freedoms of expression or association etc.
The prisoner is flogged with a 9 tail flogging device, the ends of which have metal claws, which dig into the skin of the prisoner, clawing the flesh out and ripping it apart.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ordered Trinidad and Tobago to put a stop to this method of torture, where it's still being used from time to time. This is another torture technique practiced by the Communist government of China against the followers of Falun Gong. The tortured is placed on a bench, with a board against their back and their head. The prisoner's legs are bound tightly to the bench, with several leather straps, while trying to lift the prisoner's ankles.
This goes on until the knees give way and snaps, leaving the person disabled for life. There are many more torture techniques adopted by different governments around the world, but the most prominent ones are listed here, which are still being practiced at large.
Whether or not different forms of torture are ethical, is a different debate altogether, but for now, bringing these methods out in the open is the need of the hour. Shop Read. Signup with us to unlock all features! Special Features. By Sunaina Mullick. Let's see how torture techniques have 'evolved' over the years and what modern day torture really looks like: Dog Rape A few years ago, a controversy sparked in the United States, on whether waterboarding- a form of torture used by detention facilities, where a wet piece of cloth was kept on the prisoner's face mimicking the act of drowning- was an ethical way to torture prisoners.
In , 15 Britons were captured by Iran's Revolutionary Guard. After their second night, the prisoners were lined up facing a wall, blindfolded and bound. Behind them, the detainees heard guns cocked, followed by the clicks of firing hammers falling against nothing [source: Kelly ].
Despite bans against them, mock executions continue as a means of torture -- perhaps because of their effectiveness in breaking a detainee's will. The effects of such threats on the victim's life are deep and lasting: The Center for Victims of Torture reports that torture victims who've undergone mock executions described flashbacks in which they felt as though they had already died [source: CVT ].
Sign up for our Newsletter! Mobile Newsletter banner close. Mobile Newsletter chat close. Mobile Newsletter chat dots. Mobile Newsletter chat avatar. Mobile Newsletter chat subscribe. What are the 10 most prevalent forms of torture and why? Amnesty International members protest reported abuses of detainees at the hands of U.
See more pictures of protests. Shwygar Mullah, former nanny to Hannibal Gaddafi and his wife Aline, arrives in Malta for medical treatment. Mullah reports she was tortured by Aline Gaddafi. This Kashmiri man, who was picked up by the Indian Army in under suspicion of being a militant, shows two scars he received while in custody. While captive, he was interrogated, beaten and cut by a knife. Vietnam, A U. Prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April , just after the camp was liberated by the army of Gen.
George S. Abdul Jalil forefront stands inside Ghazi Stadium on Jan. Jalil lost his hand when the Taliban accused him of being a thief and cut it off as punishment.
Inmates in a Manila, Philippines, jail in The country was criticized by the U. Medical electroconvulsive therapy ECT is performed under anesthesia to effectively treat mental illnesses such as depression.
However, similar devices are used without anesthesia in torture to cause pain and disorientation. Rwandan women wait for medical treatment at a clinic in Kibuye in During the Rwandan genocide in the early s, an estimated 25, women were tortured through rape.
A century tribunal uses ropes to elicit a confession in this engraving from a painting by A. This Iraqi man, if led to believe he will be soon killed, will have endured a mock execution. Is there a torture manual? What is water boarding? Sources Amnesty International. May 17, December March 3, March 10, During the first eight months of , people applied to the Turkish Human Rights Foundation for medical attention for torture, ill-treatment, as well as illness arising from prison conditions. In , most detainees reported ill-treatment describe beatings, threats and insults, but some also complained of blindfolding, sexual assault, hosing with cold water, electric shocks, and hanging by the arms.
UGANDA The use of torture as a tool of interrogation has featured prominently in escalating human rights violations by Ugandan security and military forces since Official and ad hoc military, security and intelligence agencies of the Ugandan government have illegally detained and tortured suspects, seeking to force confessions of links to past political opponents or current rebel groups.
Some of these practices have resulted in the death of detainees in custody. The government claims its efforts serve as part of the global campaign against terrorism. Yet in the overwhelming majority of cases, those imprisoned have not been accused or convicted of terrorism or charged with any other violent act. Human Rights Watch has documented the torture of many of those detained in the context of this campaign, including several who that died as a result of torture.
Interviewees describe a variety of methods of torture used against Muslim detainees, including beatings by fist and with truncheons or metal rods, rape and sexual violence, electric shock, use of lit cigarettes or newspapers to burn the detainee, and asphyxiation with plastic bags or gas masks. A doctor who examined the body of detainee who died in custody in described burns consistent with immersion in boiling water. A Decade of Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh.
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