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Parent topics
- Human rights [r]: Natural civil and political rights considered universal and applicable to all human beings worldwide. [e]
- Pain [r]: Unpleasant feeling or hurtful sensation that is conveyed to the brain by stimulation of sensory neurons. [e]
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- Capital punishment [r]: The practice of punishment of a crime through state-sanctioned killing. [e]
- Convention against Torture [r]: An international treaty, created in 1984 and at least partially agreed-to by 146 countries, to deny the legality of torture and take steps to abolish its use [e]
- Interrogation [r]: A systematic process of direct questioning, of a person in detention or otherwise under the control of the interrogator, to obtain reliable information to satisfy criminal investigation or human-source intelligence requirements, within the scope of relevant law and policy [e]
- Diffusion of innovations [r]: A theory of how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultures. [e]
- Spanish Inquisition [r]: Add brief definition or description
- State secrets privilege [r]: A legal doctrine, explicit in the U.S. but with comparable rules in other countries, which allows the suppression of evidence, or the blocking of a trial, if that would unavoidably cause the disclosure of information deemed critical to national security [e]
- State terror [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Terrorism [r]: Any act, nearly always violent, unpredictable, and chaotic in nature, often targetting civilians, intended to create an atmosphere of fear in order to obtain a political objective. [e]
- Thought reform [r]: Techniques, originally used to enforce conformity with political systems or to coerce confessions, that have been associated with ill-defined terms such as "brainwashing" and "mind control", although there is no evidence that total control, of which the subject is unaware, is possible [e]
