Countdown to June 26: ACCOUNTABILITY (PANANAGUTAN)

 

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Countdown to June 26

Day 1: ACCOUNTABILITY (PANANAGUTAN)

Accountability refers to the processes and mechanisms that hold any individual legally responsible for his or her own actions with imposed sanctions for violations of the law.

Penalties and Punishments of Yesteryear? -worldwithouttorture.org

Next Tuesday, 3 April, if you happen to pass by 11, rue Berryer, in Paris, you might be confronted with a display of torture instruments, for sale!

The auction house Cornette de Saint Cyr will be presenting, among the more than 300 objects and documents, a few sets of handcuffs, a hand crusher, and hanging ropes.

The collection belonged to Fernand Meyssonnier, France’s last executioner, who carried out nearly 200 executions in French-ruled Algeria.

Several human rights organisations already expressed their disagreement with the sale, denouncing the “commercialisation of torture”, and called on the French state to put a halt to the sale, if necessary by buying the lot for national museums.

Read more @ http://worldwithouttorture.org/2012/03/29/penalties-and-punishments-of-yesteryear/