UN: Tasers == Torture

The Daily Telegraph reports that the UN Committee against Torture have weighed in on the Taser debate, saying that 'The use of these weapons [i.e. Tasers] causes acute pain, constituting a form of torture'

Nic Suzor has been giving Taser incidents a lot of coverage on his blog of late, there's not a lot that I can usefully add to what he's written at this point in time.