3 June 2015 – Nigeria’s National Assembly passes a new bill criminalizing torture, as called for by an Amnesty International report. Dictatorship is sustained by fear. Guards wear all white, lights are kept … Guards have the power to inflict severe beatings, simulated drownings, stress positions, starvation, confinement in small spaces, hanging by the wrists or ankles, electrick shock, and sexual abuse. 4 December 2014 – a senate resolution in the Philippines calls for a senate inquiry based on Amnesty International's report on torture in the country. 157 – the number of countries that have ratified the United Nations Convention against Torture.141 – the number of countries in which Amnesty has reported on torture or other ill-treatment in the past five years. 3 June 2015 – Nigeria frees Moses Akatugba, a Nigerian torture victim sentenced to death for armed robbery after stealing three mobile phones – a crime he says he didn't commit –based on a “confession” obtained under torture. Although other inmates have zero tolerance towards child molesters, it is not common that children get raped inside of the prison. Amnesty International has warned that despite existing safeguards, courts often fail to act when confronted with signs of torture. Some of the cases that Amnesty International is highlighting on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture include: -       Yecenia Armenta, a Mexican woman with two children, who has spent almost three years in prison awaiting trial on charges of murdering her husband. Confronting the Legacy of U.S. Torture Epidemic. Torture often happens in secret - in police lock-ups, interrogation rooms or prisons. CIA officers threatened at least three of their prisoners with harm to their families, including a warning that they would sexually abuse one detainee's mother. 29 May 2014 – Morocco’s Ministry of Justice and Liberties instructs prosecutors and judges to order medical examinations when faced with reports of torture and other ill-treatment. White torture is a type of sensory deprivation in which a prisoner’s cell, clothes, and even food are entirely white. The most common tools of torture are basic and brutal – the hand, the boot and the truncheon – anything that can cause wounds or break bones.These are some of the more “advanced” methods Amnesty International’s research has documented:Mexico: “Tehuacanazo” – carbonated water is forced up the detainee’s nostrils. La Sante Prison, France. For this list, we’ll be looking at infamous prisons that are notorious for their violence and poor living conditions.. See more videos about Videos, Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Entertainment, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay Area. Amnesty International has campaigned since 2008 for the police to produce detailed guidelines on respecting human rights for officers. He was found dead the next day of suspected hypothermia. Even one case is unacceptable. She received so many letters from supporters around the world that prison guards complained they did nothing but scan her letters. We cooperate with local partners around the world to prevent and combat torture in detention and other places where people are deprived of their liberty. Camp Lemonnier. Otherwise, we'll assume you're OK to continue. Torture is widespread and used with impunity in North Korea's system of prisons and forced labor camps. 340,000 – the number of people who signed a petition delivered to the Mexican Federal Attorney General asking for a full investigation to be opened into the case of Claudia Medina, who was tortured by marines in order to force her to incriminate herself and others in drug–related crimes. Djibouti. Morocco: “Roast chicken” – Upside–down suspension in the stress position where victims are hung from a bar by their knees and wrists in a crouching position, placing great strain on knees and shoulders. Since launching its Stop Torture campaign in May 2014, Amnesty International has issued reports on torture in Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, the Philippines and Uzbekistan. While the term "white torture" can mean any psychological torture in general, the meaning here is more literal. Some mutilate their bodies with razors, shards of glass, sharpened chicken bones, writing utensils, and whatever other objects they can obtain.”. It is now awaiting signature by the newly-elected President Buhari. But her sub-title (“A Journey to Justice in Prisons around the World”) is a much more accurate indication of what she has observed and learned from two years of travel to prisons …