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US: CIA Torture is Unfinished Business

US: CIA Torture is Unfinished Business

The most widely accepted definition of torture internationally is that set out by Article 1 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT):

 

“... 'torture' means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.”

 

From this definition, it can be said that torture is the intentional infliction of severe mental or physical pain or suffering by or with the consent of the state authorities for a specific purpose.

 

Torture is often used to punish, to obtain information or a confession, to take revenge on a person or persons or create terror and fear within a population.

Some of the most common methods of physical torture include beating, electric shocks, stretching, submersion, suffocation, burns, rape and sexual assault.

 

Psychological forms of torture and ill-treatment, which very often have the most long-lasting consequences for victims, commonly include: isolation, threats, humiliation, mock executions, mock amputations, and witnessing the torture of others.

 

Ratification of the Convention obligates governments to assert responsibility for the prevention of torture and the redress for victims of torture. While the global fight requires the active support of all people, the government of a given territory is ultimately responsible for any torture that occurs within its boundaries. Individual governments, therefore, must take it upon themselves to take part in the struggle against torture. Ratification of the Convention is often a necessary first step in this process.

 

For this reason, the IRCT places a great emphasis on collective action aimed at the universal ratification of the Convention. Persons who reside in countries that have not ratified it have a very important role in lobbying within their own society. Persons who live in countries that have already ratified the Convention may also contribute to the cause through education and awareness raising activities promoting the cause of universal ratification of the Convention.
Torturer is cruel savage merciless living, can not be described as one of humans as his action proves that he is deprived of his humanity.
I think we all agree that the torturer is more than criminal, as a criminal has his own motive to commit a crime or has circumstances that put him in such unenviable position,but the perpetrator is someone who is deprived of mercy and humanity to do such action with his own choice and going further to create methods how to cause much pains to his victims .
How is our opinion then to be when we know that states use torture systematically in defeating political opponents, human rights activists,political activists,and others either by mistake or not.
for example the writer of this has been tortured twice in Egypt.in 2003 during the era of Mubarak for no reason but because he is a human rights activist.torture was not the only method but to make him lose his fortune and career and distort his reputations,so torturing someone is not the physical or mental of even the feelings pains but to make someone feels every second he lives that he is not even surviving he wishes every second to die and once moreat the era of the most worst dictator El sisi tortures and the police arrested him for only taking a picture with his mobile . the police tried to fabricate charges and accusations that he belongs to banned group ( Muslim brotherhood) this is the fabrication for all arrested for no reasons ) but later they found out that the muslim brotherhood raise a case against him as an opponent to muslim brotherhood. If it hadn't been for the Muslim brotherhood against him, He would have been torturing and detained for the next few years.
hence we can say any regime or state commit such crimes, should compensate and announce the regret and also introduce the criminals to  justice in fair trials. Its peoples should know via different ways these crimes.
otherwise we create people who are not human like happens in Egypt and other different parts of the world especially those dictators in Arab world.
If you think you are away of the calamهty of the consequences of such silence m you are completely wrong, somehow you will drink from the same cup 

Magdi Amer

‏ألقِ نظرة على تغريدة ‎@AmnestyNI: https://twitter.com/AmnestyNI/status/685103720934281216?s=09

Egypt 2015

Egypt started doing some measurements thst violste human right in a way that never preceded before
In my town Mahsla Kubra ,a friend of mine has just told me that he went to the police station ,yesterday,to relesse a young youth who eas arrested for no charged or accusations with his poor fsther.My friend has good relations eith police officers as friends .this was he went with the poor father.
Hrle tild mebthat sn officer there told him thst there sre more than 1280 studends and teenagrrs who are arrested .and the police officers can not do anything to release or mediate for any of the detainees.they will be detsined until after 25 th. Jan. .
The Egyptian regimr arresting  1180 person in one town for fear of the predicted revolution next Jan. 2016 .
USA and other international community assist dictators snd non democrscy regimes for only achieving  their favors and interests .those create violence,extremism,mob,terror and hatred .
And fir the internet in Egypt is very dlow and weak for two months now snd is beciming more worth .
For the media the government controls the mass media for forging the kinds snd thought of the citezens with help of some stupid broadcasters spew accusations and hatred to all who try to criticize the government or the regime.
Broadcaters call opponents betrayers,spies,agents for foreign powers and USA .
This urge the simple minded or normal people to hate foreigners and the USA .

Tamir Rice's death: A lawful tragedy http://flip.it/1VxWX

Hassan Abo ElMagd حسن ابو المجد

Gamela should be released

Egyptian police obsessions

Ramy Yosef

A friend to me on Facebook 

His account link is as follow:

https://www.facebook.com/joweyramy?fref=nf&pnref=story

wrote today

On 19-8-2015

His younger brother was arrested while he was participating in a running  marathon 

His charge was that his presence in a place where the brotherhood accustomed to appear in.

 He took part in the marathon to run and then he was arrested. Because he was to being in the street Brotherhood accustomed appear in . Brotherhood has not been caught , but he was arrested

 To :

El Sisi ,the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior

You are responsible for the violations committed in Egypt In all police stations the methodically  of fabricating the charges for young people and claim they are brotherhood. This obsession of  Brothers makes the Egyptian police arrest people randomly and cook and fabricate charges .This must have been a control and a stop.

شارك فى ماراثون للجرى و بعد ذلك تم القبض عليه . لانه كان يجرى فى شارع اعتاد الاخوان الجرى فيه . لم يقبض على الاخوان و لكنه قبض عليه 

للسيسى و رئيس الوزراء ووزير الداخلية

انتم مسئولين عن الانتهاكات التى ترتكب فى كل اقسام شرطة مصر بتلفيق التهم للشباب و ادعاء انهم اخوان و فبركة اتهامات  .هذا الهوس لابد و ان يكون له نهاية

امين شرطة يضرب ويسحل شاب على رصيف محطة مترو دارالسلام

On Monday, 10/08/2015 20:00 am at Dar as Salaam Metro
station

There was a group of youth people
teasing and sexually harassing the fiancée of a youth who sheltered to the
police there and the security of the station and the police soldier refused to
protect her from the sexual assault then this youth kept blaming the security
police soldiers .Then other security police soldiers at the Metro station
gathered around this youth and began beating him at the seen of his blaming the
police soldier

Then this youth after being
beaten announced he would submit a complaint. A secretary police asked what it
is about; the youth began telling the story. The police secretary told him that
there wills no any complaint to be written or filed.  The youth said I won't leave here before editing
an official  complaint .the secretary
police began calling the youth bad names and beating him .telling him do you
want your rights, this is your right

                      Now, another problem

The youth recorded the event
is in danger and the police is investigating about him. His neighbors told him
that informants and police are questing about him and his address.

#لازم_نفهم | محافظ الدقهلية : لا أعمل لدي المواطنين

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I don;t know whether this citizen at the studio is paid for making trouble and is a lair.

I am not at the service of the citizens



This the way the Egyptian official think and believe.

The Egyptian governor of Daqahleya ,accuses the citizen as liar .It is not personal.,but most of the Egyptian officials take it personal. also they have the culture that they are the masters and the others are slaves.

Hosam El Deen Emam , the governor of Daqehlya says:

that he doesn't work for the citizens and also the citizens do not pay his salary.