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Technological Invention and Diffusion of Torture Equipment; The Strange Case of Electric Torture Instruments in the Early 20th Century ... In more recent cases before US Courts, expert witnesses who testify on the inadequacies of the electrical chair happen to be "commercial promoters of equipment for lethal injection,
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The head vise is used for students who refuse to learn or pay attention in class ... The pot was used to boil witches, heretics, or uncooperative students. ... ; Ouch! In this manner, students learned never to turn papers in late.
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Arms fairs should be patrolled by customs officers to stop the sale of instruments of torture and other equipment banned in Britain, a cross-party committee of MPs say in a report today. ... At the last biennual Defence Systems & Equipment International Exhibition in London's Docklands, Mr Thomas found leg irons and stun...
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After an 18-month inquiry into the sale of torture equipment by a businessman called David Knights, the Crown Prosecution Service decided it could not prosecute because he had brokered the deal. The weapons had been purchased in the US and shipped to Cyprus and were not, therefore, imported through the UK.
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Reed Elsevier have been forced to drop their links with the arms trade - and the reasons are clear: individual and collective action by members of the academic and medical community, Thanks to everyone who signed the petition and who lent support in every way. ... Announcement from Elsevier (1st of June 2007) here...
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Similarly, the European Commission (EC) has drafted regulations that would ban the export from member states of equipment whose primary practical purpose is torture--such as leg irons and stun belts--and impose tight restrictions on the export of equipment that may have a legitimate policing purpose but which could be...
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b) exercise special caution and vigilance in issuing licences, on a case-by-case basis and taking account of the nature of the equipment, ... […] Internal repression includes [inter alia] torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, summary or arbitrary executions, disappearances,
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