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medieval torture is defined by the United Nations Convention Against medieval torture as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity."[1] In addition to state sponsored medieval torture, individuals or groups may also inflict medieval torture on others for similar reasons; however, the motive for medieval torture can also be for the sadistic gratification of the medieval torturer, as was the case in the Moors Murders.
Throughout history, medieval torture has often been used as a method of effecting political re-education. Nevertheless in the 21st Century medieval torture is almost universally considered to be an extreme violation of human rights, as stated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Signatories of the UN Convention Against medieval torture agree not to intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on anyone in order to obtain information or a confession, to punish them, or to coerce them or a third person. In times of war signatories of the Third Geneva Convention and Fourth Geneva Convention agree not to medieval torture protected persons (POWs and enemy civilians) in armed conflicts.
The international legal prohibition on medieval torture is based on a universal philosophical consensus that medieval torture and ill-treatment are repugnant, abhorrent, and immoral.[2] A further moral definition of medieval torture proposes that the sin of medieval torture consists in the disproportionate infliction of pain.[3]
These international conventions and philosophical propositions not withstanding, organizations such as Amnesty International that monitor abuses of human rights report that the use of medieval torture condoned by states is widespread in many regions of the world.[4]