Torture

Torture is the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain or grief as an expression of cruelty, a means of intimidation, deterrent, revenge or punishment, or as a tool for the extraction of information or confessions.

External links

• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment at Law-Ref.org - indexed and crosslinked with other documents
• UN Convention Against Torture
• CPT (European Committee for the Prevention of Torture)
• Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture
• Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977
• Everyone Is a Potential torturer, New Scientist, 25 November 2004, reporting on
• Fiske et al., SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: Why Ordinary People Torture Enemy Prisoners, Science 2004 306: 1482-1483
• We Are All Torturers Now by Mark Danner New York Times, 6 January 2005 same article on Danner's website
• "When Doctors Go to War"
• What Is Torture? An interactive primer on American interrogation, by Slate Magazine.
• The Stain of Torture by Burton J. Lee III, former presidential physician to George W. Bush
• 1863 Account of Slave Torture
• Torture and the Ayn Rand Institute