“Torture in the United States”
Read an October 1998 report on torture in the United States prepared by the Coalition Against Torture and Racial discrimination, a working group of non-government civil and human rights groups in the U.S.
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“The dark art of interrogation”
Read an October 2003 Atlantic Monthly story about the thin line between interrogation and torture.
“The moral debate about torture”
Read and listen to a May 1, 2009, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly program about the morality of torture.
“APA Rules on Interrogation Abuse”
Read a Aug. 20, 2007, Washington Post story on the American Psychological Association vote to prohibit psychologists from participating in several interrogation techniques that have been used against U.S. terrorism detainees because the methods are immoral and psychologically damaging.
“Catholic activists protest torture practice”
Read a May 1, 2009, National Catholic Reporter story about a rally of human rights activists in Washington, D.C., to support a criminal inquiry.
“Torture follow-up”
Read a May 11, 2009, “Sightings” column by Martin Marty that follows up on his earlier essay on torture and churchgoers; it includes a response from David Neff of Christianity Today.
“‘Zero Dark Thirty’ tortures the truth about interrogations”
A Religion News Service piece analyzing the portrayal of torture in the 2012 movie “Zero Dark Thirty.”
“‘Zero Dark Thirty’ tortures the truth about interrogations”
A Religion News Service piece analyzing the portrayal of torture in the 2012 movie “Zero Dark Thirty.”
“Is Force-Feeding Torture?”
An May 31, 2013, opinion piece published in the New York Times that asks if force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike constitutes torture. The question came about after detainees in the U.S.’s Guantánamo Bay prison facility in Cuba refused to be fed in protest of new rules.