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When Vovo Bossongo, an opposition-party member in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was dragged into a Kinshasa jail last January, the authorities skipped the usual beating. Instead, security agents poked the young woman with a 2-ft.-long shock baton whose electric jolts eventually left her unconscious. When Chinese prison guards tired of kicking Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso, they shoved a black clublike shock baton down his throat and charged it up. The current that raced through his body left him crumpled on the floor "in a pool of blood and excrement and in extreme pain," he recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weapons Of Torture | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

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