More news to make you forget any nostalgia for New Labour you may have had. It turns out the Ministry of Justice has written a torture manual on how to restrain children in private prisons, according to the Observer: Some of the restraint and self-defence measures approved by the Ministry of Justice include ramming knuckles […]
During World War 2, Hitler and his pals liked nothing so much as have a nice little torture film after dinner, recordings made during Gestapo interrogation sessions. Would it go too far to believe Bush and Cheney may have done the same with videotapes from Guantanamo Bay, for example this video of the interrogation by […]
The pretty woman as helpless victim of the evil maniac/torturer/rapist has been a cliche of horror movies for as long as there have been horror movies and the idea of the uppity bitch getting her comeuppance from the man she spurned is even older than that (listen to some murder ballads someday for some examples). […]
This op-ed by the US ambassador to the UN human Rights Commission Eileen Donahoe is devoid of reality that you have to laugh, if you don’t want to cry. Every paragraph is an exercise in chutzpah and quote worthy but this is I think the worst: Time and again human rights defenders underscore the importance […]