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At another time or place, the unknown gunmen who smashed Alaa's front door and ransacked his home in January might have been armed burglars. But this was Baghdad, a few days after Saddam Hussein was hanged. "They were aiming to kill me," says Alaa, a television producer who was...
94 per cent of the verified testimonies include incidents of torture. The short list of methods includes repeated kicking or hitting, intentional physical scarring, forcing victims to maintain certain positions, electric shocks to sensitive areas, threats, mock execution, humiliation, forced nudity, sexual assault, witnessing the torture or execution of others...
To much fanfare, Princeton University announced last month that it would not raise undergraduate tuition for the coming year. According to The New York Times, several factors—including alumni donations, the 20 percent return of endowment investments, and the decision by trustees to spend more of the endowment?...
However, Hayes notes that the idea that Chinese prisoners are willfully donating their organs to “society” (i.e. to rich Westerners) is tenuous at best. In a country where convicts are often taken directly from the courtroom to the execution ground and due process is a...
By the middle of December, winter came in earnest. A penetrating north wind swept the city with icy blasts. The window and door of my unheated cell rattled with each gust. I had on both my sweaters and a padded jacket, but still spasms of shivering shook my body. In...