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  2. 3 days ago · The prohibition on torture and inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment is one of the most fundamental rights protected by the Human Rights Act. This right is absolute. It is never justifiable to torture someone, whatever the circumstances. On a basic level, the reason why this ban is absolute is very simple: torture and inhuman or ...

  3. May 15, 2024 · torturer: 1 n someone who inflicts severe physical pain (usually for punishment or coercion) Types: flogger , scourger a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders) Type of: oppressor a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures

  4. 5 days ago · 05/21/2024 May 21, 2024. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka sent officers implicated in torture and killings as UN peacekeepers, DW, Netra News, and Süddeutsche Zeitung reveal in a new investigation.

  5. 5 days ago · Lynching, a form of violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting torture. The term is derived from the name of Charles Lynch (1736–96), who led an irregular court formed to punish loyalists during the American Revolutionary War.

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  6. 5 days ago · Imprisonment for public protection sentences were abolished by the coalition government back in 2012, but the change was not retrospective - meaning 2,852 prisoners remain behind bars, including ...

  7. 3 days ago · Obsessive/Sadistic rape – involving torture and perverse sexual acts; Acquaintance Rape. This type of rape happens between two people that know each other. Often acquaintance rape is known as "date rape" as the two people involved may be in a social relationship at the time. Some victims don't recognize acquaintance rape as rape but it's ...

  8. 5 days ago · Dennis Rader (born March 9, 1945, Pittsburg, Kansas, U.S.) is an American serial killer who murdered 10 people over a span of three decades before his arrest and confession in 2005. He called himself BTK because he bound, tortured, and killed his victims. Rader was raised in Wichita, Kansas. He later claimed that as a youth he had killed ...

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