Torture Auction To Raise Money For Amnesty

[struggle4progress]

12:23pm UK, Friday May 08, 2009

... An anonymous family are putting an extensive collection of historical torture equipment under the hammer in New York.

Relatives of a Holocaust survivor, they have pledged to give all proceeds to organisations such as Amnesty International ...

Sara MacNeice, Amnesty's anti-torture campaigner toldSky News Online: "It's maybe a sort of poetic justice that these grotesque implements will actually go towards supporting our work to stamp out torture in the modern age" ...

An article in the New York Times in 1893 described the collection as "terrible relics of a semi-barbarous age" ...

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