Anti-torture group to train Thai authorities in aim to reduce torture

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Anti-torture group to train Thai authorities in aim to reduce torture

By The Nation

 

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A Thai government department has joined forces with a Geneva-based anti-torture group in a three-year project to create awareness and provide training aimed at reducing torture by state officials.

 

The Rights and Liberties Protection Department and the Geneva-based Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) aim to have create awareness about state torture, promote the exchange of information between related agencies, provide related training and formulate a handbook for torture prevention.

 

A memorandum, signed on Monday between department chief Pitikan Sithidej and association representative Shazeera Zawawi, will be in effect for three years – the period in which the activities and seminars would be held – and is renewable by mutual agreement.

 

APT’s Zawawi said each country is required by international law to prevent state officials from torturing people who have no bargaining power, and Thailand has put torture in its criminal code.

 

Zawawi said torture has three components: an action inflicts serious physical or mental injury on another person, the action is intentional and not done through reckless behaviour, and it is done with the specific objective of obtaining a confession from a powerless victim.

 

Her organization will provide legal and technical expertise to the Thai government, as well as consultation aimed at reducing the risk of torture, or related illegal actions, from taking place. They will also draft a torture prevention handbook for the Thai government.

 

The APT avoids a focus on condemning the actual torturers, and instead seeks cooperation to prevent and solve the problem.

 

Still, when the public sector works with civil sector groups, it can sometimes lead to conflict, she said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30349654

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-07-09

[observer90210]

Could harassing the expats/foreigners with never ending red tape and harassment on visa issues or DLT issues,  also kindly be considered as torture. ?

Edited July 9, 2018 by observer90210

[Oziex1]

Is this the end of the PM's weekly TV rant.

 

and Thai Visas pictures of Prawit that really is torture.

[stanleycoin]

I have seen some Torture  in go go bars over the years

That hot candle wax over the pert breasts,  just does it for me, every time. 

 

 

 

Edited July 9, 2018 by stanleycoin

[rott]

The aim is to "reduce torture", has an acceptable level been agreed on yet??

[starky]

1 hour ago, rott said:

The aim is to "reduce torture", has an acceptable level been agreed on yet??

Not till they complete the course, of course.

[KhunFred]

What could POSSIBLY go wrong????

[wombat]

 ''training aimed at reducing torture''

ve hav wayz uf making you talk.

 

[roquefort]

So by signing this agreement the government admits that torture is taking place but they want to reduce it. Really?

[1duckyboy]

"Reduce", not end torture. Sounds like the future point of contention is what is too much torture, not that torture is illegal.

Edited July 9, 2018 by 1duckyboy

[ChrisY1]

Is this another fake news item?....Thais have learnt how to torture quite well....

[YetAnother]

thailand is primitive, how can torture standards even be discussed ?

[Yann55]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Anti-torture group to train Thai authorities in aim to reduce torture

 

One of the weirdest, most obscure and unsettling headlines I've seen on Thai Visa in a long time ...

Edited July 9, 2018 by Yann55

[Eligius]

They might like to discuss the little issue of two utterly powerless Burmese lads on Koh Tao who were evidently physically tortured and then psychologically tortured by having a death sentence hung over their innocent heads - while the real filthy-brat, rich rapists and murderers of British tourists run free ...

 

Edited July 9, 2018 by Eligius

[Dumbastheycome]

Ah  !   Waterboarding  !  The   non  torture  method.  As  claimed by  self  claimed   Human Rightist  Democratist  Christianitist  Unitednationistits Bogusitis  Bovine  Shitists !

Train ?? Re train??? Why  not  just  say   "stop torture"  ?

Maybe  the  obvious  answer  is that  there  are ways  to  torture   which  conveniently   avoid  International   convention.

[observer90210]

Could we also add to the list of tortures,  the fate of the helpless BTS commuters,  who were stranded for hours on a daily basis, during the recent breakdown ?

 

 

 

 

[HLover]

2 minutes ago, observer90210 said:

Could we also add to the list of tortures,  the fate of the helpless BTS commuters,  who were stranded for hours on a daily basis, during the recent breakdown ?

 

 

 

 

No.

[Happy Grumpy]

Thais would never torture anyone. 

[chickenslegs]

6 hours ago, wombat said:

 ''training aimed at reducing torture''

ve hav wayz uf making you talk.

 

Or, in the case of our beloved Deputy Prime Minister - "Ve hav wayz of making you (tick) tock".

 

Dreadful joke -

[Happyman58]

I thought the government of Thailand would be more interested in " how to effectively use torture more to abstract information that it wants to hear not ways to decrease the use of torture as an information getter. Then again you never judge a book by its cover

[despicable alien]

rule number one to halt torture: dont let the US have any embassies or consulates on Thai soil

[happy chappie]

13 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

Or, in the case of our beloved Deputy Prime Minister - "Ve hav wayz of making you (tick) tock".

 

Dreadful joke -

I reckon that joke is a form of torture.another one of them and I'll give you my pin and safe number.please,please I can't take anymore.???