Tajikistan, a longstanding human rights violator, has been cracking down harshly on what’s left of its political opposition.
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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.
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?
What was shown on Four Corners was cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment – if not torture.
The War on Terror-era programme of clandestine abductions and detentions wasn’t just an American initiative.
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?
GOP primary voters view Trump as a strong leader. Will general election voters see things the same way?
How did Washington get its hands on Guantánamo Bay – and why does its presence there still cause so much trouble?
The ACLU describes the release of photos of DoD detainees as an important victory for the cause of transparency, but are they?
Giulio Regeni, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, was carrying out research on the formation of independent trade unions in post-Mubarak Egypt.
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 battle for public opinion over whether Edward Snowden was right might just be won out, not in the press or the US Congress, but in fiction.
Sri Lanka’s authoritarian former president failed to persuade his country to have him back. Could it herald a new era of progress?
The American Psychological Association’s collusion in one the most egregious ethical lapses in our nation’s history is unconscionable.
Saudi Arabia has upheld a blogger’s flogging sentence, in defiance of international pressure. How long will this go on?
Why hasn’t the American Psychological Association prohibited members from participating in interrogations? And what are future psychologists learning about military medical ethics?
Australia’s breaches of international human rights law are increasingly coming to the UN’s attention.
How does one cope with a job assessing whether thousands have been tortured and killed?
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…
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