News: Human Rights Flagrant Violation

SUMMARY:

It's well known that China, nowadays, is the most unknown part of the world. This country is closed, so we can't see nothing more than the labels of the shirts we wear, but, even though they signed up the universal declaration of human rights, do they respect them?

Some enterpreneur journalists in China are trying to reveal that this country is nothing but tyranical, and they release information every week. This week, the fact that has been released is that some torture methods which were meant to be abolished are still in use in most of China's police department's. This torture method is named tiger chair and it looks like this:

This method consists in somebody hitting the knees of the tortured one with an object. It's an interrogation method that uses to cause fatal consequences to the affected ones. Another thing that is usual in this method is the privation of sleep, that can cause neurological disorders. 

What this journalists try to do with this weekly articles is asking for help to other modern countries that don't use this methods. But they say that they haven't got feedback yet but they expect to have some soon.

VOCABULARY:

Disorder (mental): Affection which causes damage to the logical capabilities of the subject.
Privation of sleep: Act that consists on avoiding the subject to fall asleep, in order to make him suffer.
Tiger chair: Ancient chinese torture method.

COMMENT:
I have to say that unfortunately these things are happening in the modern world as well. Every year new reports appear that talk about abuses in other countries during civil wars (Vietnam, Iraq, Siria, Bosnia,...). And torture is a current method in the countries which are supposed to be modern (USA for example). My question for the governments that promote and use this methods is: Are you being fair? Are you better than a serial killer if you kill him?

Most of these countries would say that they are contributing to common well-being and all that utilitarism related stuff. But I'm quite cathegorical in this aspect. I think that each of us, even a terrorist, deserves respect for his human condition, so he can be interned in prison but he can't be killed or tortured.

But this is only a humble opinion from somebody with no influence, hope you appreciate it.



Source: https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/05/13/tiger-chairs-and-cell-bosses/police-torture-criminal-suspects-china