By Rachel Vandenbrink
Activists in Hong Kong protest methods used by Chinese state security police, August 2011.CITIZENSIDE.COM
China and North Korea are among the Asia-Pacific region’s worst culprits for torture, according to a new report by rights group Amnesty International which also sees many other countries in the region failing to meet obligations to protect against and punish the horrific abuse.
A poll by the group revealed that 30 years after the Convention Against Torture was adopted by the U.N., almost half of the world’s population still does not feel safe from torture and other forms of ill treatment used “as a favored tool by the forces of repression.”