{"id":1691,"date":"2006-10-19T10:50:53","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T10:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2006-10-19T10:50:53","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T10:50:53","slug":"2006-10-19-bbc-poll-one-third-support-torture-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"BBC poll: One third support torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">A <a title=\"One-third support 'some torture'\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_depth\/6063386.stm\">BBC survey<\/a> in 25 countries on the usage of torture showed some depressing results. One third of those surveyed insisted torture could be used in prison on circumstances.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than 27,000 people in 25 countries were asked if torture was acceptable if it could provide information to save innocent lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Egypt, according to the poll, 65% voted against employing all sorts of torutre, while 25% saw it legitimate under &#8220;some circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Egyptian citizen from Arish, Mohamed Sharif, tortured and sexually abused by police 2006\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/90\/262352581_81c046df91_o.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>And surprise, surprise:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Israel has the largest percentage of those polled endorsing the use of a degree of torture on prisoners, with 43% saying they agreed that some degree of torture should be allowed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the full BBC report <a title=\"One-third support 'some torture'\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_depth\/6063386.stm\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related link:<\/strong> <a title=\"Five video clips of Egyptian police brutality\" href=\"\/arabawy\/2006\/10\/10\/new-police-abuse-video\/\">Egyptian police abuse videos<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">A <a title=\"One-third support 'some torture'\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_depth\/6063386.stm\">BBC survey<\/a> in 25 countries on the usage of torture showed some depressing results. One third of those surveyed insisted torture could be used in prison on circumstances.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than 27,000 people in 25 countries were asked if torture was acceptable if it could provide information to save innocent lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Egypt, according to the poll, 65% voted against employing all sorts of torutre, while 25% saw it legitimate under &#8220;some circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Egyptian citizen from Arish, Mohamed Sharif, tortured and sexually abused by police 2006\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/90\/262352581_81c046df91_o.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>And surprise, surprise:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Israel has the largest percentage of those polled endorsing the use of a degree of torture on prisoners, with 43% saying they agreed that some degree of torture should be allowed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the full BBC report <a title=\"One-third support 'some torture'\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_depth\/6063386.stm\">here.<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Related link:<\/strong> <a title=\"Five video clips of Egyptian police brutality\" href=\"\/arabawy\/2006\/10\/10\/new-police-abuse-video\/\">Egyptian police abuse videos<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[228,226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}