Posts Tagged ‘torture’
Why lawyers for accused terrorists aren’t, er, terrorists
A piece I worked on during my last two months in the States just appeared on the CSM’s website. It’s about lawyers who defend prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. It started out being a story about how it affects their personal and professional lives, but it ended up, thanks in large part to Liz [...]
Why German homeschoolers get asylum and torture survivors don’t
I don’t know, actually. Maybe Uwe Romeike got lucky? Maybe asylum is starting to change? Maybe judges like evangelicals? Or white people better than black people? Or maybe we just really, <em>really</em> hate the European Court of Human Rights?
In late January, A US immigration judge in Memphis, Tenn., recently granted asylum to a German [...]
‘How we know waterboarding works,’ by the CIA
Remember that guy who went on ABC and said, “Waterboarding works. One douse, and this al Qaeda guy totally opened up.” (Okay, maybe it went more like this: “From that day [we waterboarded him] on, he answered every question. The threat information he provided disrupted a number of attacks, maybe dozens of attacks.”)
His [...]
So much for the Interrogators-Gone-Wild defense
The New York Times finally made it through the newest set of newly released documents on CIA interrogations and concludes that they suggest — wait for it — that torture was in fact an American policy closely monitored in Washington, not the uncoordinated work of Interrogators Gone Wild.
Now, I haven’t read the documents yet, but [...]
Et cetera, and some good reading
The list of things to blog about is long, but time has been short lately, and this blog, if I would let it, would turn into a full-time non-paying job, like so much else in journalism these days. I’m resisting, but it’s hard.
Meanwhile, I’m starting to gather ideas for a redesign–or rather, a first [...]
The unintended consequences of American torture
This week, I’ve been reading The Translator by Daoud Hari. Hari spent a few years fixing and translating for Western journalists covering the conflict in Darfur. He has an easygoing voice, and the book is full of lovely details and detours, like this one:
…A camel’s hooves, by the way, have cracks and other [...]
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