A recent poll conducted by a human rights organization, Amnesty International, showed on Tuesday that nearly half of the people around the world fear becoming a torture victim if arrested.

Amnesty said in the new report that although governments around the world have criminalized the practice, "many of them [governments] are carrying out torture or facilitating it in practice."

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The countries that recorded the highest concern about torture are people from Brazil and Mexico in which 80 percent and 64 percent of the respondents respectively said that they would feel unsafe, if for some reason, they get arrested. The countries with the lowest fear of torture are Australia (16 percent) and Britain (15 percent), the poll showed.

GlobeScan, a public opinion research consultancy that does reputation and trends research among other things, conducted a survey of 21,000 people in 21 countries for Amnesty. Of the 21,000, it found that 44 percent of the respondents said they would not feel safe if arrested in their respective countries.

Four out of five people surveyed said they wanted clear laws to guarantee that torture is prevented, while 60 percent of the overall population survey supported the idea that torture as a means of punishment or to get information is not justified.

However, there are two outliers in the poll, namely China and India. Respondents from both countries sometimes felt the need for torture as long as it's justified.

"Three decades from the convention and more than 65 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights torture is not just alive and well. It is flourishing," Amnesty's report read. "Torture in 2014 - 30 Years of Broken Promises."

According to Amnesty, there are 155 countries that are signatories to the United Nation Convention Against Torture, a 30-year-old document ratified many years ago. The human rights organization said that many governments continue to fail in their responsibility.

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