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Torture
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International Law Prof Blog
Guantanamo Bay Detainee Files Complaint with IACHR
One of the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Djamel Ameziane, has filed a complaint against the United States with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) alleging that he…
International Law Prof Blog
Convention Against Torture: Deliberate Indifference and Gross Negligence are Not Found to be Torture
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as ruled that because "torture" requires a specific intent to inflict harm, deliberate indifference and historical gross negligence are not enough…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Pro-Choice Scholar Barred From Speaking About Torture at Minn. Church
Minneapolis-St. Paul StarTribune: Anti-torture but pro-choice? Can't have that in church, please, by Nick Coleman: Dr. Steven Miles, a world-renowned scholar, author and anti-tortureactivist, has won many awards in his…
EvidenceProf Blog
Let Us Live And Strive For Freedom: South African Supreme Court Finds Evidence Obtained By Torture Inadmissible
By Colin Miller
In what is being described as the first case of its kind since the advent of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa in 1996, the Supreme Court of…
The Contingency
Quote of the Day: Steven G. Bradbury
The program as it is authorized today does not include waterboarding. There has been no determination by the Justice Department that the use of waterboarding under any circumstances would be…
Media Law Prof Blog
Human Rights Watch Accuses Bangladeshi Authorities Of Torturing Reporter
The human right group Human Rights Watch has charged that Bangladeshi authorities tortured a reporter into making a false confession during a detention last year. The reporter, Tasneem Khalil, who…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Bush Administration Effort to Deport Coptic Christian to Egypt Rejected
The N.Y. Times reports that a federal judge in Pennsylvania yesterday blocked the U.S. government’s efforts to deport a Coptic Christian who said he would be tortured if he were…
The Right Coast
An important problem, long festering, finally comes to light Tom Smith
In Arizona, a young lawyer and federal court clerk, and former beauty queen, has been arrested for kidnapping her boyfriend, binding him with duct tape, and torturing him, before he…
The Right Coast
More cents on torture Tom Smith
A loyal reader challenges me to elaborate my views on torture, and I am happy to do so, though this is a topic philosophers and other wise heads have mooted…
The Right Coast
Two cents on waterboarding Tom Smith
I don't think the question of whether waterboarding terrorists in order to get information to stop terrorist attacks is morally justified, is even an interesting question. It is too obvious…