China is not only the global manufacturing base for thousands of everyday household items, it is also the source of most of the world’s torture instruments, from spiked clubs and electric stun batons to weighted leg cuffs.
China’s manufacture and export of “intrinsically cruel, inhuman and degrading” law enforcement equipment has surged in the past decade, according to a report published on Tuesday by Amnesty International.
The number of Chinese companies producing such equipment, much of it banned in the EU and condemned by the UN, has more than quadrupled to 130 in the past decade, the report said.
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