Wrongly Held, Never Tried, Fighting Back Wrongly Held, Never Tried, Fighting Back
The Tipton Three embody a nightmare scenario of the "war on terror": Young British men visiting Pakistan for a wedding wound up accused of terrorism in Afghanistan, imprisoned and ...
Dec 9, 2005 / Feature / Sarah Goldstein
Harold Pinter: Art, Truth and Politics Harold Pinter: Art, Truth and Politics
The pursuit of truth in drama is elusive, but in life it is mandatory, wrote Harold Pinter, who died Wednesday at 78. When he won the 2005 Nobel Prize for literature, he condemned ...
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Torture Tree Torture Tree
As The Nation's editors have written in the lead editorial of this special edition on torture, there is no longer any point in
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Steve Brodner and Peter Ahlberg
Bitter Memories of a ‘Dirty War’ Bitter Memories of a ‘Dirty War’
The current debate in the United States over the use of torture in the interrogation of terror suspects has prompted Patricia Isasa, a teenage torture victim in Argentina...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Michael Fox
An Army of Lawyers An Army of Lawyers
Human rights organizations have coordinated an investigation into torture and an extensive defense of detainees, organizing lawyers who represent clients from nonprofits to oil and...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Lisa Hajjar
Secrets and Lies Secrets and Lies
By the time the first prisoners were taken in Iraq, a green light to abuse had been issued in writing. Now torture is cloaked in a veil of secrecy, with obscured statistics, dismis...
Dec 8, 2005 / Feature / Karen J. Greenberg
Pop Torture Pop Torture
Pop culture does more than validate the claim that torture could help foil bombs seconds before detonation.
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Richard Kim
Rogue Scholars Rogue Scholars
Defenders of torture dwell not only in the White House and Pentagon, but in the halls of academia. When prominent law professors and academics cite the fantastic "ticking-bomb theo...
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Tara McKelvey
Disco Inferno Disco Inferno
Military detainees have been subjected to starvation, sleep deprivation and now Metallica and Britney Spears. Blasted at high volume, torture music has become a weapon of war, used...
Dec 8, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Moustafa Bayoumi