The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a call to reconsider whether interrogation techniques used in the 1970s against men interned in Northern Ireland amounted to torture.
Gina Haspel addresses The Office of Strategic Services Society in 2017.
OSS Society
Time is fixed, but people experience hours, months and days in very different ways. One researcher has spent decades exploring this universal phenomenon.
The Libyan rebel leader Abdel Hakim Belhaj who has won the right to sue former British foreign secretary Jack Straw.
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From Long Range Acoustic Devices used to disperse protesters to ear-splitting military drones to songs blasted on rotation to prisoners, ours is an age in which sound has been repositioned as a tool of terror.
The indefinite ruler: Tajik President Emomali Rahmon.
EPA/Ria Novosti
What’s shocking about the treatment of detainees in youth detention is not so much the treatment of those vulnerable people, but that it is happening in a wealthy country like Australia.
A blueprint for ISIS – and for a video game? Camp Bucca, Iraq.
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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 images broadcast on Four Corners of a hooded figure sitting strapped to a chair are difficult to erase.
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The War on Terror-era programme of clandestine abductions and detentions wasn’t just an American initiative.
Poor knowledge of mental illness and lack of access to mental health care lead many families in Indonesia to chain mentally ill people in shackles.
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Thousands of people with mental illness are shackled in Indonesia even though the practice has long been banned. Why does the practice persist and how can we eliminate it once and for all?
Will Trump’s exploitation of fear work in the general election?
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