Mohandas Gandhi You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind
Benjamin Franklin They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security
Torture is not a country specific phenomenon. It is far too comfortable to say that Syria, or China or Saudi Arabia or Cuba or Bulgaria can be labeled as states that use torture routinely as part of their national policies. As recent history has demonstrated, the fellow travelers on the torture road are numerous and [...]
When Canada’s Parliament resumes in just over two weeks time, there is expected to be considerable debate about two issues that have become emblematic of the worrying ways that human rights have been undermined and sold short in the name of security: the fate of Omar Khadr and the handling of prisoners apprehended by Canadian [...]
This article originally appeared in New York Review of Books and is republished here with permission
This article originally appeared in New York Review of Books and is republished here with permission
More than sixty years ago, in a series of trials conducted in Nuremberg, Germany, the United States and its allies made history by holding Nazi officials accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during World War II—including abductions, [...]
