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Torture and deprivation of freedom : risks, issues and factors
Exposé - Culture Générale - 6 pages - Format Microsoft Word
The relatively recent scandal of Abu Ghraib has pointed out the problem of the phenomenon of torture during detention. However this is a recurrent issue and most of the acts of torture perpetrated around the world happen in police stations and prisons amongst others. It is important to focus on the definition of torture as an action from a public authority when it comes to the specific context of detention. Indeed, it would appear as irrelevant to include in this presentation the ill treatments that prisoners are likely to suffer from other private individuals such as inmates, as well as the deprivation of freedom as the result of a kidnapping. We will only broach the question of the Public Force and its action on the individuals. In addition, we will consider indistinctively arbitrarily arrested inmates (or innocent, political or non judged prisoners) and those who were found guilty of an infraction, an offence or a crime.
The issue we are now concerned with is : Why is deprivation of freedom a factor of torture ? Which is or should be the role of the state to prevent torture in detention spaces ?
Plan du document :
I) Deprivation of freedom: the friction between the protection and the control of the individual by the State
a) The legal base of protection and the questioning of its efficiency
b) The omnipresence of the state and the helplessness of the individual
II) Deprivation of freedom: a climate which favours torture
a) Physical imprisonment gathers the major factors of torture
b) The conditions of detention
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