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Amnesty: Torture Use 'Systematic' in Many Countries

Governments around the world are failing to keep the promises they made in the 1984 U.N. Convention on Torture, according to human rights group Amnesty International.  Amnesty International says many countries are using torture systematically on a vast scale.   In his home city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Justine Ijeomah is known as 'Mr. Human Rights'. In a region with high rates of poverty and crime, Ijeomah offers support to people arrested and held by...


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