White Room - A Strange Torture That Is Not Physically Painful

In this world, everyone who has been convicted of committing a crime shall be punishable by law with different types of punishments awaiting them. Despite many of them being done to teach these criminals a lesson, there are a few vicious punishments out there with the intention of torturing the guilty either physically or emotionally.

However, there is one particular act of torture that may sound a bit strange but can be considered quite vicious. This sort of punishment was given the name White Room.

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What is The White Room?

In this punishment, the offender will be placed in an all-white room as far as the eyes can see. White walls, white bed, white floors, white clothing, white light - everything shall be in white. On top of that, these people will also be inside a very quiet and soundproof room.

This type of punishment is mostly done in Iran and it gives a huge negative impact psychologically on the person for the rest of their life.

Psychological Effects on The Offender

If you were to look at it once, you would probably think that there is nothing wrong with punishment. But in reality, the White Room will have a negative effect on a person's psychology. It will ultimately kill the person's sense of vision as well as hearing.

A person living in the White Room for so long will experience a lack of taste sensation and the ability to remember others. The effect of such torture will be hard to control and the person will definitely live with it for the rest of their life.

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One ex-convict from this place once said:

"I was there for eight months and after those months I couldn't remember my father and my mother's face," Fakhravar stated. "When they released me from that prison I was not a normal person."

Aside from Iran, there are a few countries in the world that once used this method with the offenders. During the rule of President George Bush, Amnesty International and other humanitarian bodies once claimed that the US used similar punishments to the offenders that are placed in the secret prison of Guantanamo Bay.

In Venezuela on the other hand, the humanitarian bodies also reported that such torture was experienced by the offenders in the country. Many offenders who have been sentenced to such punishments have made an attempt suicide due to being depressed.

This is one of the ways to be used to force a person to commit their crimes without tormenting them physically. Definitely the most brutal aspect of this punishment.

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