Human rights and dignity are the most important values that everyone is born with. Whether rich or poor, Christian, Islamic or Buddhist... Everyone deserves to be respected.
Torture is a way to extract informations from criminals by hurting them but it is an inefficient method because it is counter human rights, unguaranteed method to get the truth and ruins the image of the society.
Torturing someone in order to extract information in a short time requires a certain skill. In fact,perpetrator must burn off his humanity to be able to torture. That’s why most of the torturers are from military units who get a physical and psychological maltreatments to turn torture into a profession. The experience of torture is ‘ re-created’, according to
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With time, torturing becomes easier to the perpetrator which it makes him more aggressive and push him to get it like a profession. Moreover, the brutal methods that the torturer use in his jobgive him the feeling of a hero, he sees the suspect as a ‘sub-human’ as described by Wolfendale (2006). Torturers are enjoying causing pain and killing innocent people because torture becomes a profession and it won’t affect on them.
Torture was excused to apply on dangerous terrorists but not everyone that looks like a
suspect deserves that maltreatment. The worst thing is that innocent people who were tortured are set free like nothing happened . As reported in CBC news, the case of Maher Arar who is a normal Canadian, Syrian engineer and being tortured from the US government because they suspected him being a member of AL QUAEDA. After that, he got an apology from the prime minister of Canada and some money because he was innocent. So an apology and a lot of money aren’t really enough to express how wrong torture is. Torture has a bad effect on the