A well thought out article.
Writer Laurent Gaude (l) and Amnesty’s Genevieve Garrigos launched the “stop torture” campaign in Paris
‘. . . it is to put a very high value on your surmises to roast a man alive for them.’
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592): On the Lame (trans. M.A. Screech – Penguin Classics)
The spectre of torture as effective and desirable is back in the news again. I feel it worthwhile again to republish a pair of blog posts from two years ago, the first today, the second tomorrow. The book I refer to in the posts – Darius Rejali’s Torture and Democracy – conclusively demonstrates, at least to my mind, that no form of torture will ever be effective no matter how acceptable we manage to persuade ourselves it is.
Amnesty International Survey Findings
On the 13th May the BBC News website posted a disturbing report of Amnesty International findings. They stated:
Nearly…
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