Torture Should Be Banned

Torture Should Be Banned

Torture is one of the most barbaric actions of state repression, and it constitutes a direct and premeditated strike on the centre of the human personality. Like slavery, it is a sign of the nearly unlimited power of one one-by-one over another. In the case of slavery, the human being is degraded to the status of a non-human object deprived of lawful personality.

Torture aspires to decimate human dignity and decrease the casualty to the rank of a passive device in the hands of the torturer. In very vintage and medieval times in Europe, torture ...