Stop Torture

You've hung from the ceiling for hours. Your muscles scream. Electric shocks convulse your body. Water forced into your mouth. You think you're drowning. Rape. Mock executions. Whatever it takes to break you. To make you submit. To sign a confession, or hand over information. You're hidden away from the world's gaze. You think you are forgotten, you think you are alone.

All over the world, states are torturing people just like you.

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  • East Hartford
    .: Joe Doe
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  • MEXICO - CLAUDIA MEDINA TAMARIZ
    Marines broke into Claudia Medina’s home in Veracruz on 7 August 2012 at around 3am. They took her to the local navy base where she was given electric shocks, forced to inhale a very spicy sauce, beaten up and kicked while she was wrapped up in plastic in order to disguise the subsequent marks. The marines accused her of being a member of a powerful and violent criminal gang. Claudia said she did not know anything about them. She was pressured into signing a false testimony without reading it. Later she told Amnesty "If they had not tortured me, I would not have signed the statement.” Despite most of the charges being dropped, one serious charge still stands against Claudia and no investigation into her allegations of torture by government forces has taken place. The first step in these investigations has not taken place. An effective medical examination must be carried out as part of a swift, full and impartial investigation, as established in the internationally recognised Istanbul Protocol.
    172 of 200 Signatures
    Created by KA
  • NIGERIA - MOSES AKATUGBA
    When he was only 16 years old, Moses Akatugba was arrested and tortured. He reports being beaten by the police, shot in the hand, and hung for hours at the station. Moses states he only signed the confession agreeing he was involved in a robbery because of the torture and asserts his innocence. In November 2013, after eight years of waiting for a verdict, Moses was sentenced to death. No one should experience this level of brutality. No one should be pressured to confess through torture. And no one under the age of eighteen at the time of the criminal offense should be sentenced to death.
    1 of 100 Signatures
    Created by KA
  • MOROCCO/WESTERN SAHARA - ALI AARRASS
    Ali Aarrass was tortured for 12 days by officials of the Government, from the General Directorate for the Surveillance of the Territory (DST). He was held incommunicado in a secret detention centre in Témara, Morocco where he describes he was beaten on the soles of his feet, experienced electric shocks to his testicles and was suspended for long periods from the wrists. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) said that he was convicted on the sole basis of a confession extracted under torture. Call for justice for Ali Aarrass and survivors of torture; call on the Minister of Justice to open an investigation into the torture and implement the decision of the WGAD calling for his immediate release.
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    Created by AK