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The 29 pages that link to Torture, each with the reason it gives.

• Political repressionBroader topic: Security forces may use torture to punish opposition or force information.

• CoercionRelated: Torture uses extreme force and suffering to compel information or conduct.

• Human dignityCompared with: Torture exemplifies treatment that denies a person’s dignity and is prohibited under international law.

• ExtraditionRelated: A credible risk of torture is a major human-rights objection to surrender.

• Amnesty InternationalRelated: Opposing torture is a longstanding focus of Amnesty’s research and advocacy.

• Capital punishmentCompared with: Critics compare execution methods and death-row conditions with prohibitions on cruel treatment.

• Dirty WarRelated: Torture was routinely inflicted on people held in clandestine detention centers.

• CounterterrorismCompared with: Claims of necessity conflict with legal prohibitions and evidence questioning its reliability.

• Political prisonerRelated: Political detainees may face torture to extract confessions, suppress organizing, or intimidate others.

• Blood libelRelated: Torture produced coerced confessions in several historical prosecutions.

• DehumanizationRelated: Treating victims as outside ordinary moral concern can facilitate their abuse.

• Bodily autonomyCompared with: Torture is an extreme violation of bodily integrity and control.

• Nineteen Eighty-FourRelated: O’Brien uses it not merely to punish Winston, but to reshape his beliefs.

• Moral absolutismRelated: Its prohibition is often defended as binding even in emergency scenarios.

• Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuseNarrower topic: The abuses included conduct understood as torture, within a broader category of deliberate severe harm.

• State terrorismRelated: Torture can terrorize individuals and signal the costs of dissent to wider communities.

• Enhanced interrogation techniquesNarrower topic: The central dispute is whether the program’s methods constituted torture under law and ordinary usage.

• Enforced disappearanceRelated: People held in secret after disappearance face heightened risk of torture and other abuse.

• Witch trialsRelated: Some courts used torture to obtain confessions or names of alleged accomplices.

• Political imprisonmentRelated: Interrogators may use torture to punish dissent or force political prisoners to confess.

• Cesare BeccariaCompared with: Beccaria argued that torture cannot reliably establish guilt and violates lawful judgment.

• SAVAKRelated: Former detainees and human-rights investigations documented torture in SAVAK custody.

• Tuol Sleng Genocide MuseumRelated: Survivor testimony and prison records document torture at S-21.

• Guantanamo Bay Naval BaseRelated: Interrogation practices at the detention camp prompted extensive allegations and legal scrutiny.

• Malleus MaleficarumRelated: Its advice addresses coercive interrogation, including the use of torture.

• WaterboardingNarrower topic: Waterboarding is widely classified as torture under legal and human-rights frameworks.

• Jeremy WaldronRelated: Waldron examines why legal systems should reject torture even under claims of emergency necessity.

• Kang Kek IewRelated: Torture was systematic at S-21 under Duch’s command.

• Takiji KobayashiRelated: Kobayashi died after being tortured during police interrogation in 1933.