"No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 5. Adopted in 1948.
"He had a pair of pliers in his hand. He kept asking where the mobile was. I told him I had not seen it. He then told me to bring my thumb forward. He got hold of my thumb and placed it between the pliers. He pressed it hard and crushed my thumb. I do not remember what happened next."
A nine-year-old boy from Bangladesh describes his treatment by a policeman.
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A nine-year-old boy from Bangladesh describes his treatment by a policeman.
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