..., and has writ­ ten a number of books about American politics and history, most recently More Equal Than Others. His biography of Colonel House, Woodrow Wilson’s Right Hand, will be published this year. The U.S.-European Torture Dispute: An Autopsy Godfrey Hodgson As George W...

... is new book, A Bed for che N ight: Humanitarianism in Crisis, w ill be published by Simon an d Schuster this fa ll. The Bureaucrat o f Torture David, R ie ff Services Spéciaux: Algérie 1955-1957 P au l Aussaresses Paris: Éditions Perrin, 2001...

...Mai El-Sadany The Egyptian government has repeatedly violated the law with arbitrary arrests, torture in detention, and forced disappearances. But in the past, Egyptian legal expert Mai El-Sadany says, at least these measures could have been challenged in court. Today a person may be subjected...

...Kim Thuy Seelinger Khadidja Hassan Zidane told a stunned Senegalese courtroom that Chad’s former president, Hissène Habré had raped her on four separate occasions. But judges ruled Zidane’s testimony came too late, and Habré was acquitted of this charge. While Habré’s convictions for torture, war...

... politicians have been manipulating the country's collective memory of this era for their own gain. For the survivors of the regime's torture apparatus, the new nostalgia for repression can be traumatizing. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 Brazil military dictatorship torture Brazilian...

... already attracted international attention for of Chileans were subject to arbitrary arrest, his legal investigation of unsolved murders detention, and torture. Some simply “disap­ of Spaniards in Argentina and his pursuit peared.” Chile’s dirty war was assiduously of Gen. Adolfo Scilingo...

... rendition” is the governmen­ Extraordinary rendition evolved out of tal transfer without legal process of a person pre-9/H practices intended to facilitate the to another country where it is more likely judicial process, and only after 9/11 became than not he will be tortured. The case...

... released to the media earlier this year. He was responding to a rights report alleging systemic torture at the hands of Thai military. “It has helped transform the unrest in the deep south, paving the way toward a resolution of the conflicts based on peaceful means and based on good cooperation from all...

....” And sometimes, at midnight, he visits the homeless on the streets of Rome, wearing only a black cassock. But this is also the same man who, as archbishop of Buenos Aires, refused to meet the grandmothers and relatives of infants who had been torn away from their imprisoned and tortured mothers during...

... Communists and government critics. This is when authorities pioneered the tactic of “disappearance”—illegally arresting suspects and placing them in secret torture and execution centers. Often, the detainees were young people, among them pregnant women. Jailers would wait for the women to give birth...

... 95 relations, a link whose true strength was invasion and the subsequent scandals over misjudged alike by Leonid Brezhnev and torture, America’s moral authority as a de­ Henry Kissinger. Sharansky tartly faults the fender of universal rights has grievously former secretary of state for prizing...

... that he would reverse the country’s course on torture and detention at Guantanamo, Obama had some success but promised more than he achieved. In other areas like surveillance and drone killings, he maintained or even strengthened many of the legal and policy excesses of Bush’s war on terror...

.... The ruling called on the European External Action Service and EU member states “to raise with the Egyptian authorities the routine practice of enforced disappearances and torture, notably by agents of the National Security Agency, and to press for impartial and independent investigation into all cases...

... and torture of an American nun and volved in the slave trade—until recently, ac­ nine others in Guatemala. Similar cases tivists have focused more on public advocacy were also brought in Britain, France, and and lobbying governments than on the issue Australia. of corporate accountability. Moreover...

..., the largest city on the is­ Aceh, 1989-1993 during this period the land of Sumatra, of which Aceh forms a government was responsible for the deaths part. Jafar’s limbs were bound by wire of an estimated 2,000 civilians and for the and his body bore signs of torture. He had arbitrary detention...

... with blood. Suharto banned the PKI and imprisoned 35,000 people without trial—many of whom were tortured. Some political prisoners were forced to drink soldiers’ urine; others had to eat their own severed ears. The elimination of the Communist Party and the rise of student demonstrations forced Sukarno...

... organizing FERNANDO HENRIQUE C. DE OLIVEIRA FERNANDO HENRIQUE C. DE OLIVEIRA Robson Silveira da Luz was a 27-year-old black man from São Paulo, Brazil. He was a worker and a father, who on June 18, 1978, was falsely accused of stealing fruit from an outdoor market. The police tortured him...

... individuals from 129 countries selected for training by nearly 140 U.S. federal agencies. Suspected narcotraffickers, killers, torturers, and foreign units involved in systematic extrajudicial killings were all found in the database. Many managed to pass through American vetting and receive training...