Twin reports from a UK Parliament committee go further than ever in condemning Britain's complicity in the worst of the War on Terror.
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Gina Haspel is in hot water over the CIA's use of 'enhanced interrogation techniques'. And in decades past, the US imprisoned people for using the same methods.
A grassroots movement is fighting for transparency and accountability on North Carolina's involvement in torture.
Torture is the ultimate abuse of state power over the individual. If the US returns to using it, all hell could break loose.
The UK has yet to properly grapple with its past complicity in prisoner abuses and torture.
Does including torture or other human rights violations in video games trivialize the actions? Or might it force us to think more critically about them?
The War on Terror-era programme of clandestine abductions and detentions wasn't just an American initiative.
How did Washington get its hands on Guantánamo Bay – and why does its presence there still cause so much trouble?
The UK's last inmate at Guantanamo Bay has finally been brought home – but the matter of Britain's role in the War on Terror is by no means resolved.
The American Psychological Association's collusion in one the most egregious ethical lapses in our nation's history is unconscionable.
Why hasn’t the American Psychological Association prohibited members from participating in interrogations? And what are future psychologists learning about military medical ethics?
There are many incredible things about the diary recently published by Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi. It contains over 2,500 redactions, and was only published after a six-year legal battle…
Ever since the US Senate’s devastating report into the CIA interrogation practices, which concluded the agency’s conduct amounted to torture, the debate over how to punish those responsible has gone unanswered…
Whether Bond can be black or not is a debate that has rumbled on past the pre-Christmas Sony hack revelations that Idris Elba was proposed as the next Bond. Kanye West waded in just before the new year…
On November 24, two weeks before the Senate Intelligence Committee released its “torture report,” Reprieve, a UK-based human rights NGO, published the results of its latest investigation into President…
The world quietly celebrated Human Rights Day (December 10) earlier this month. That week, two big, interrelated human rights events occurred. The first was the well-publicised revelations that America’s…
You have to admire the tenacity of Teflon Tony. To most observers it’s beyond doubt that the former prime minister’s reputation was burnt to a crisp by the overheated intelligence on Iraq’s invisible weapons…
The controversy over the CIA torture report has moved on to calls for the UK government to be open about its own involvement. The arguments have also been widened to include other elements of CIA activities…
Among the litany of abuse documented in the War on Terror, the revelations in the US Senate’s recent “torture report” on the treatment of detainees held in CIA “black sites” -secret overseas prisons where…
At the end of a long and challenging week, the famous aphorism, “we have met the enemy and he is us” readily comes to mind. The issuance of the long awaited Senate “torture report” has set off a debate…
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Westminster
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Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Faculty, Center for Bioethics and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
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Lecturer in Politics, Kingston University
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Postgraduate Associate at the Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University
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Professor of History & Head of the National School of Arts, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Cardiff University
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Senior Lecturer of Media Studies and Digital Media, University of Sussex
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Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London
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Research Fellow, Rotheremere American Institute, University of Oxford
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Associate Professor of American Politics, De Montfort University
