Torturers don’t usually leave a paper trail, but when they do, they prefer it locked behind official secrecy acts. The Bush administration’s infamous 2002 memo on acceptable interrogation techniques ...

W. Fitzhugh Brundage, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides in Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition a timely overview of America's enduring and fraught ...

Ancient Rome: Torture is thought to give more validity to the confessions of slaves and other lower-class people. 12th century: The rise of political authority and discontent with the oaths, ordeals, ...

George W. Bush’s bold 2007 proclamation that “This government does not torture people,” would have certainly come as news to Abdal Rahim al-Nashiri, an Al Qaeda operative who was tortured under the ...

CIA director nominee Gina Haspel could face a tough confirmation battle after a number of lawmakers raised questions Tuesday about her past involvement in torture of detainees. A veteran of the ...

Laurence Ralph’s The Torture Letters recounts an extensive history of police abuse and violence in the CPD. A Chicago police badge hangs in front of the City of Chicago Public Safety Headquarters, ...

A couple hundred Chicago Public High School students crowded into a hall at the Chicago Teachers Union this week to watch the reading of a play on police torture in Chicago. It’s part of the city’s ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Houshang Asadi is an equal opportunity torture victim. He was tortured under the Shah and tortured again after Iran's Islamic Revolution. He still feels the pain, every night. Now ...