The main goal of the author in writing this book is to promote fight with torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. Unfortunately, torture is widespread and extremely difficult to detect and eliminate. The use of torture by state officials is one of the most horrifying human rights violations. Torture and cruelty are not limited to any specific culture, geographic area or time period. International legal agreements have had a positive, though limited, effect on the human rights practices of some governments. One conclusion the author arrived at in this research is that the use of torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment is always an effective way to keep the population in a constant state of fear and thereby makes them easier to control.