Logic says you would torture one man to save hundreds of thousands of lives, and so you would.

ECONOMIST: Civil liberties under threat

P.s, and death under torture of a young Afghan man, known only as Dilawar, in 2002, at the Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul.

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Then the press claimed that the city's new chief of the judicial police, in an earlier post, had been involved in the torture and murder of a young man and was linked to drug traffickers.

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The ad, which urges men to "end the face torture, " shows the ways a man's face is exposed to harsh elements, such as windburn from a roller coaster, pokes from a child, close shaves, snowballs, even "deserved" slaps.

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The man who is being held on suspicion of torture was arrested under Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and the investigation is being led by officers from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command.

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Britain's senior diplomat in Tripoli declined to offer an apology during a meeting on Thursday with the man at the centre of allegations of rendition, torture, and collusion between the former government of Col Gaddafi, London and Washington.

BBC: UK envoy 'declines apology over Libya rendition claims'

The message was clear: now that they have him back, Chile's armed forces do not intend to allow the man who was their commander until 1998 to face any further indignities, such as a trial for torture, kidnapping or murder.

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