"If the state refuses to speak to us, if it decides to torture, beat and imprison our people, then you can only expect people to defend themselves," he says.

“如果国家拒绝与我们对话，如果它决意采取严刑拷问的手段，拷打并关押我们的人民，那么人民也只能自我防御了，”他说道。

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It can't just mean torture at the hands of the state.

它并不单单指，国家所实行的酷刑。

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In fact, extorting confessions by torture is already prohibited but the changes made this time clearly state that a suspect's rights must be protected.

事实上，严刑逼供已经被禁止了，但是这次所做的改变明确规定，嫌疑人的权利必须受到保护。

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Women whose lives are mostly held in the private sphere rather than a public one are never gonna be taken in for state torture because they aren't actors on the political and social theme.

一些妇女，她们的生活处于,隐秘和不公开的状态,“国家酷刑“从来不会把她们算进去,因为在政治和社会层面上,她们并非活跃分子。

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It can't just mean torture at the hands of the state.

它并不单单指，国家所实行的酷刑。

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In 1980, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, decided that state torture violated international law, and that America had jurisdiction over a torturer hiding in the United States.

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To be charged with torture in the UK a person has to be allied with state forces.

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