🔗 On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, First Step to Combating Torture is Accountability
Torture has claimed hundreds of lives while there remains virtual impunity for perpetrators, who either evade accountability entirely or are penalized in a manner disproportionate to the severity of the crime. Meanwhile, state security has expanded its use of enforced disappearance and torture at National Security headquarters, including by electrocution and sexual abuse, with the aim of coercing confessions or causing humiliation.