Torture Introduction 48 Fleet Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. I had a farm, a husband, my own business. It was a good life. Torture is abhorrent.
Torture is illegal.
Yet torture is inflicted on men, women and children in well over half the countries of the world. Torture is still used to extract confessions, to interrogate, to punish or to intimidate. In police stataions and prison cells, on city streets and in remote villages, torturers continue to inflict physical agony and mental anguish. The victims of torture are not just the people in the hands of the torturers. Friends, families and the wider community all suffer.