It's hard to say what's "civilized", though.  Is civilized our inner city of Chicago, with its seemingly daily murders?  Or our jails with lax laws that provide a place for criminals to expand their resources for future crimes?  Or our guards and sometimes police who brutalize the convicted and even the innocent?  Or our sweet talk of fighting for freedom yet killing hundreds of thousands in other countries who don't even attack us?

This is one incident.  It's likely their jails are hell.  But, could be their streets are much safer than ours.  And, in no way am I justifying how their government behaves, at least what we can see.  It's a dictator regime, but that doesn't mean every person in that country ends up on some torture table.  

This wasn't cool at all...but then again going there and starting to poke at their government wasn't exactly the smartest choice, either.