Administration of Torture - A Documentary Record From Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond

Klappentext I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor! with no chair! food! or water. Most times they had urinated or defecated on themselves and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more. On one occasion! the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room! that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold ... on another occasion! the A/C had been turned off! making the temperature probably over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his own hair out throughout the night. Zusammenfassung Constructs a portrait of the systematic abuse suffered by detainees caught in the net of America's "war on terror." This work argues that the endorsement of abuse at the highest levels of government presents a powerful test for American democracy and the rule of law. Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction: Administration of Torture Timeline of Key Events Description of the Documents The Documents

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• Autori: Jameel Jaffer, Jameel (American Civil Liberties Union) Jaffer, Jameel (American Civil Liberties Union) Si Jaffer, Jameel Singh Jaffer, Amrit Singh, Amrit (Senior Legal Officer Singh
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2009
• EAN: 9780231140539
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14053-9
• Pagine: 456
• Serie: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Sistema politico