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UN Says Using Tasers Is Torture

UN Says Tasing is Torture

We may normally think of Tasers as being non-lethal, but a rash of recent "taser"-ings in the United States and Canada have ended with a bit of death for the victim of the low voltage electric weapon. It's led to a slew of bad press, but now a committee at the UN is getting in on the Taser-bashing party by declaring the ubiquitous stun-gun a form potentially lethal form of torture.

Three young men in their 20s died this week alone in North America after being shot with the stun weapons, though the company, Taser, continues to maintain that the deaths are attributable to other factors.

The UN is even encouraging Portugal to pull the X26 stun gun, which it recently purchased for use by its police forces, saying that the use of the Taser violates the UN's conventions against torture.

From Engadget

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Tags: non-lethal, self defense, SelfDefense, taser, torture, UN

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