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Torture increasing in Nigeria— Amnesty International
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Amnesty International has verbally expressed torture and other forms of cruelty are on the elevate in Nigeria, Iraq and Libya, with postures to torture appearing to grow passive.
The international non-profit organisation verbally expressed this on Thursday via a verbalization on its website to mark the 17th International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, 30 years after the United Nations adopted its convention against torture.
“One would have hoped that three decades into the battle against torture, the Amnesty International would have fewer victims to fortify,” it verbally expressed.
It attested further that many of the 155 regimes who joined the convention against torture had taken “concrete, practical steps” to reduce torture and other ill-treatment considerably.
The verbalization noted, however, that reports of torture and other ill-treatment perpetuated to stream into its offices circadianly.
It verbally expressed, “In a world traumatised by the threat of terrorism, postures to torture appear to be increasingly ambivalent.
“Fear of puissant armed groups in countries like Nigeria, Iraq and Libya is softening international resolve when it comes to enforcing the proscription on torture. And the desideratum to maintain security forces’ adhesion is stifling investigations of abuse in places such as Ukraine.
“How many Nigerians would sanction torturing a Boko Haram suspect to bring back their schoolgirls – without cerebrating how often suspects in Nigeria are erroneously inculpated?”
According to the AI, ascendant entities cannot be relied on to pick and optate, and even if the ascendant entities always get the right suspects, the grim authenticity of torture is “too troglodytic to countenance”.
“The enjoinment of torture must be absolute,” it affirmed.
The organisation verbally expressed it had in May launched its flagship global campaign Stop Torture, and that since then, it discovered that from the 155 states who had vowed to stamp out torture when they signed the Convention, at least 79 of them had carried out torture or other ill-treatment in 2014.
The AI verbally expressed looking back over a five-year period, it had received reports of torture in at least 141 countries, which was the astronomical majority of those on which it worked.
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