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Torture

Most Recommended Books

Torture Team by Philippe Sands

“There were several other things written about the ‘torture memos’ as they were called during the Bush administration. But Sands went ahead and interviewed the authors of those memos and tried to get to the bottom of their motivation…The motivations are similar to the ones that the United States has criticised in many other countries that are accused of torture. They use the idea of there being exceptions to the rule and that this was needed because the US was in a state of emergency, and maybe these arguments are a little more sophisticated than what Pinochet and his minions came up with 30 years ago, but they are not all that different…The other aspect of it is also that these proponents of torture during the Bush administration say that it works, and I think that Philippe Sands’s book demonstrates that this is by no means the case.”

Juan Mendez, Lawyer

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    The best books on Torture, recommended by Juan Mendez

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    The best books on Torture - The Treatment of Prisoners Under International Law by Nigel S Rodley

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    The Treatment of Prisoners Under International Law
    by Nigel S Rodley

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    The best books on Torture - The Little School by Alicia Partnoy

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    The Little School
    by Alicia Partnoy

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    The best books on Torture - Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman

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    Death and the Maiden
    by Ariel Dorfman

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    The best books on Torture - Torture Team by Philippe Sands

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    Torture Team
    by Philippe Sands

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    The best books on Torture - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

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    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell

  • The best books on Torture - The Treatment of Prisoners Under International Law by Nigel S Rodley
  • The best books on Torture - The Little School by Alicia Partnoy
  • The best books on Torture - Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
  • The best books on Torture - Torture Team by Philippe Sands
  • The best books on Torture - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The best books on Torture, recommended by Juan Mendez

Can torture ever be justified? No, says the UN special rapporteur, who tells us how torturers try to excuse themselves and what remedies should be available to surviving victims

The best books on Torture, recommended by Juan Mendez

    The best books on Violence and Torture, recommended by Darius Rejali

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    The best books on Violence and Torture - Torture Team by Philippe Sands

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    Torture Team
    by Philippe Sands

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    The best books on Violence and Torture - None of Us Were Like This Before by Joshua E S Phillips

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    None of Us Were Like This Before
    by Joshua E S Phillips

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    The best books on Violence and Torture - Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self by Susan J Brison

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    Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self
    by Susan J Brison

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    The best books on Violence and Torture - That the World May Know by James Dawes

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    That the World May Know
    by James Dawes

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    The best books on Violence and Torture - Against Forgetting by Carolyn Forché

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    Against Forgetting
    by Carolyn Forché

  • The best books on Violence and Torture - Torture Team by Philippe Sands
  • The best books on Violence and Torture - None of Us Were Like This Before by Joshua E S Phillips
  • The best books on Violence and Torture - Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self by Susan J Brison
  • The best books on Violence and Torture - That the World May Know by James Dawes
  • The best books on Violence and Torture - Against Forgetting by Carolyn Forché

The best books on Violence and Torture, recommended by Darius Rejali

The author of Torture and Democracy gives a harrowing interview on the effects of violence, torture and trauma on the human being, ‘torture has a slippery slope and once you authorise it, it rapidly runs out of control’

The best books on Violence and Torture, recommended by Darius Rejali

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