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‘People tell you what you need to know, without brutality’: Former UN torture expert

Not only does torture not work, it’s counterproductive, and when the practice elicits false confessions, societies pay a “very high price.” 

That’s from Professor Juan Méndez, who served at the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2014 to 2016, and experienced torture himself. He spoke to UN News’s Natalie Hutchison in New York.

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