Trade in instruments for torture and execution should be illegal and could one d...
European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom attends an interview with Reuters in Geneva, Switzerland June 14, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
“Today, you can buy all kinds of things on the Internet. You can buy spiked batons, you can even buy a gas chamber,” Malmstrom said. “You can buy electro-belts, special batons, equipment or products that are only used to harm people. Their only one purpose is to torture.” Both Guterres and U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet back the project, which Malmstrom compared to previous campaigns to ban trade in endangered species and restrict weapons trading.The products available were becoming more advanced, such as electro-shock belts that leave no trace, thereby making it harder to bring their users to justice.
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