Various watchdog groups which monitor the situation in prisons all over the world confirm that torture still exists in many of them. One of the notorious examples is Guantanamo Bay detention camp where most heinous tortures were reported to repeatedly take place. By 2016, most detainees have been transferred to facilities in the US. Apparently, tortures took place due to the special training most Guantanamo interrogators came through. For 15 years of its existence, the detention center became a symbol of human rights abuse with its most inhumane detention techniques. Though it is about to be closed, similar camps exist all over the world and continue to torture inmates.
The list of tortures which are used by the current moment is wide enough to revolt. In 2000, Amnesty International human right group issued a handbook for monitoring prisons where most common forms of torture had been mentioned. Here belong beating, electric shock, sexual assault, hanging prisoners by the limbs, mock executions, and many other illegal interrogation techniques. According to reports of Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights, such tortures as placing people into the extremely high or low temperature conditions, penetrating injuries, asphyxiation, forced medication, experiments on humans, and traumatic removal of tissues are also wide spread.
Tortures mentioned above, in the first place, bring severe physical damage to the detainees. The prior aim of the interrogators who apply tortures is to damage but leave individuals alive. Next, moral health is totally demolished, as most of the methods involve humiliation and undermining of person’s dignity. However, not only detainees are damaged by torturing. Interrogators destroy their personality and leave no place for anything humane while torturing people.