Russia Today - May 13, 2014
More than one-third of people around the globe - increasingly
fortified by a fear of terrorism and glamorized by American TV shows –
see justification for the use of torture, Amnesty International said on
Tuesday.
Since 1984, 155 countries have signed up to the UN Convention
against Torture. However, at least 79 of these countries still
engage in torture, according to human rights group.
And the actual number of countries that engage in torture
techniques is probably higher, since ‘enhanced interrogation
techniques’, as the US military euphemistically calls the
practice, generally occurs behind closed doors.
However, Western attitudes to the use of torture are changing
with the times.
The Amnesty poll found that nearly 29 percent in the UK thought
torture was "sometimes necessary" and
"acceptable." That is a higher rate compared with
Russia, for example, where 25 percent agreed with the practice.
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