Backstreet music used as torture

Backstreet fans might think listening to the boys' songs is heavenly but students at the University of Toronto think it's torture.

Music by the Backstreet Boys and other pop artists is being used to "torture" students participating in a sit-in at the University president's office, Reuters reports.

A group of 20 students have been in the president's office for six days, demanding that the UFT campus ban the sale of clothing made in sweatshops.

As of Wednesday, there were only eight students left in the protest. At night, pop music pipes loudly through the office.

"This is probably the first time the Backstreet Boys have been deliberately used as a form of sleep deprivation torture," protester Sonia Singh told the National Post.

The University stores buy clothes from China and Mexico, and the protesters, known as Students Against Sweatshops, don't have evidence that the clothing is made in Third World sweatshops.

--AllPop