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When the photographs depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released in 2004, U.S. politicians attributed the incident to a few bad apples in the Am
Political Torture in Popular Culture
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Political Torture in Popular Culture argues that the literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has been one of the defining dim
Pinochet
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Near midnight on October 16, 1998, officers of Scotland Yard entered the London hospital room of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and arrested him on ch
Tortured Logic
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Experts in the intelligence community say that torture is ineffective. Yet much of the public appears unconvinced: surveys show that nearly half of Americans th
Getting Away with Torture
Language: en
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Follows the paper trail of torture memos that led to abuses at GuantanĂ¡mo, in Afghanistan, and in Iraq.