Topic: Torture
PNP secret torture chambers exposed
December 15, 2014 ·
PNP secret torture chambers exposed December 13, 2014 10:33 pm by FR. SHAY CULLEN Who would ever imagine that a secret torture squad attached to the Philippine National Police would use a crudely made “wheel of fortune” to select the torture technique they would use on their victims? Torture is outlawed by […]
Read More...Secret Torture Chambers Exposed
December 15, 2014 ·
Secret Torture Chambers Exposed Fr. Shay Cullen Who would ever imagine that a secret torture squad attached to the Philippine National Police would use a crudely made wheel of fortune to select the torture technique they would use on their victims? Torture is outlawed by international convention and the Philippine Penal Code yet in 2009 […]
Read More...Police torture common in PH – Amnesty
December 5, 2014 ·
Father Shay Cullen, founder of the Preda Foundation for human rights based in Olongapo City, said the report was too narrow in its focus and did not go far enough in revealing the truth behind the abuse, ill-treatment and torture of children in government municipal detention centers where they are brought by police and brutalized.
Read More...Syria should be referred to ICC, UN's Navi Pillay says
December 13, 2011 · , BBC News
The top United Nations human rights official has told the Security Council that Syria should be referred to the International Criminal Court over its crackdown on anti-government protests.
Read More...The Use of Torture in the Philippines
August 20, 2009 · , http://www.opcatph.org/
What is Torture? The term “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 […]
Read More...Press Statement: International Day In Support of Victims of Torture
June 23, 2004 ·
The members of the 17th IB handcuffed me and dumped me on their truck. The soldiers then kicked me savagely, until I almost fainted. A group of CAFGU’s even taunted me that they would take care of my young wife while I’m in jail, and I was unable to sleep since my hands were handcuffed […]
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