Torture
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Are we saying that, as is written in the Geneva Convention, the Declaration of Human Rights and the Constitution of the United States that "
torture
is wrong, but some
torture
is less wrong than others?"
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By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to
torture
in Egyptian jails and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.
What I also realized at that point was that it was not only Cambodia, but of the 113 developing countries that torture, 93 of these countries have all passed laws that say you have a right to a lawyer and you have a right not to be tortured.
And what I recognized was that there was an incredible window of opportunity for us as a world community to come together and end
torture
as an investigative tool.
We often think of
torture
as being political
torture
or reserved for just the worst, but, in fact, 95 percent of
torture
today is not for political prisoners.
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