[Discussion] PUBL.- Torture: A User's Manual, Special Issue of Index on Censorship, Routledge

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From: Rebecca Vickerstaff <Rebecca.Vickerstaff@tandf.co.uk>

PUBL.- Torture: A User's Manual, Special Issue of Index on Censorship

Special Issue of Index on Censorship: Torture: A User's Manual
New to Routledge for 2005

We thought we had it licked. Torture was outlawed by most civilised 
countries as
far back as the nineteenth century. Then came the atrocities of World 
War II and
international agreements such as the Geneva Convention and the laws of 
war were
drawn up to ensure that such things should never happen again. But 
torture is
back in fashion, it seems; in the face of the terrorist threat, we are 
told, a
little refined torture is a good thing. Nothing excessive; 'sterilised 
needles'
under the finger nails.

Index argues that torture is indivisible. Thou shalt not.

Stanley Cohen unpicks the new arguments that favour a return to torture

Caroline Moorehead says torture is endemic in Egypt - even to the point of
torturers for hire

Jessica Gunhammar discusses rape as torture

Joanna Bourke asks what do the photos from Abu Ghraib really tell us?

Conor Gearty says the case for a little gentle torture has acquired some new
supporters

Nigel Rodley, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture on the US and
international law

Andrew Graham-Yooll looks back at the time of the disappearances in 
Argentina

Ariel Dorfman looks at the long slow fuse of evil in Chile

Ronald Crelinston on how to make a torturer

Tom Fawthrop on confessions from Cambodia

Craig Murray on Uzbekistan.

Index on Censorship, edited by Ursula Owen and Judith Vidal-Hall is the only
magazine devoted to protecting and promoting free expression. 
International in
outlook, outspoken in comment, publishing some of the world's finest 
writers,
Index exposes stories that are suppressed, publishes banned writing, 
initiates
debate and gives breadth to news that has often been dumbed down in the 
world's
media. In addition, every issue of Index since its inception has included a
30-page, country by country index recording violations of free speech. These
lists remain as extensive today as when the magazine was founded 33 
years ago,
and are a trenchant reminder that continuing vigilance is essential.

For further details, please visit:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03064220.asp



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