Monitoring Detention, Custody, Torture and Ill-treatment

Monitoring Detention, Custody, Torture and Ill-treatment
Author: Jason Payne-James
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2017-09-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1351812726

This landmark practical guide assists all those involved in monitoring detention conditions and investigating and preventing torture. The prestigious global author team identify the medical, legal and professional frameworks and international instruments applicable to those detained, and highlight how torture or other cruel and inhuman degrading treatments or punishments are identified, investigated and should be prevented. · A comprehensive and wide range of detention settings and circumstances are covered including police stations, prisons, mental health, and social care civil conditions to prisoner of war, detention camps, military, and armed conflict. · Advice, monitoring, and assessment is given for special groups, including the custody of women, children, vulnerable adults, and individuals on hunger strike · Practical guidelines are given for the assessment of ill-treatment of individuals in custody including sexual abuse · Online links to the latest legal, ethical, and medical guidelines for key countries help to make this book appropriate for all. Challenging, thought-provoking yet thoroughly practical, this book is essential reading for anyone involved in the monitoring of detention conditions and the treatment and investigation of individuals in any form of custody. The content is aimed primarily at healthcare professionals but it also highly relevant for anyone who may form part of a visiting team, including lay individuals, lawyers and law enforcement professionals, as well as for academics.

The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture (Academic Edition)

The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture (Academic Edition)
Author: Senate Select Committee On Intelligence
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 820
Release: 2020-02-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1612198473

The study edition of book the Los Angeles Times called, "The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations." This is the complete Executive Summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into the CIA's interrogation and detention programs -- a.k.a., The Torture Report. Based on over six million pages of secret CIA documents, the report details a covert program of secret prisons, prisoner deaths, interrogation practices, and cooperation with other foreign and domestic agencies, as well as the CIA's efforts to hide the details of the program from the White House, the Department of Justice, the Congress, and the American people. Over five years in the making, it is presented here exactly as redacted and released by the United States government on December 9, 2014, with an introduction by Daniel J. Jones, who led the Senate investigation. This special edition includes: • Large, easy-to-read format. • Almost 3,000 notes formatted as footnotes, exactly as they appeared in the original report. This allows readers to see obscured or clarifying details as they read the main text. • An introduction by Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones who led the investigation and wrote the report for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and a forward by the head of that committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Treatment of Detainees in U. S. Custody

Treatment of Detainees in U. S. Custody
Author: Carl Levin
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2009-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1437914225

Contents: The Origins of Aggressive Interrogation Techniques; The Authorization of Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape Techniques for Interrogations in Iraq; Witnesses: Richard Shiffrin, Former Dep. Gen. Counsel for Intell., DoD; Daniel Baumgartner, Jr., USAF (Ret.), Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA); Jerald Ogrisseg, USAF Survival School; Diane Beaver, USA (Ret.), Joint Task Force 170/JTF Guantanamo Bay; Jane Dalton, USN (Ret.), Former Legal Advisor to the Chmn., Joint Chiefs of Staff; Alberto Mora, Former Gen. Counsel, U.S. Navy; William Haynes, II, Former Gen. Counsel, DoD; John Moulton, II, USAF (Ret.), Former Commander, JPRA; Steven Kleinman, USAFR, Former Dir. of Intell., Personnel Recovery Acad., JPRA. Illus.

Globalizing Torture

Globalizing Torture
Author:
Publisher: Open Society Inst
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781936133758

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency embarked on a highly classified program of secret detention and extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects. The program was designed to place detainee interrogations beyond the reach of law. Suspected terrorists were seized and secretly flown across national borders to be interrogated by foreign governments that used torture, or by the CIA itself in clandestine 'black sites' using torture techniques. This report is the most comprehensive account yet assembled of the human rights abuses associated with secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations. It details for the first time the number of known victims, and lists the foreign governments that participated in these operations. It shows that responsibility for the abuses lies not only with the United States but with dozens of foreign governments that were complicit. More than 10 years after the 2001 attacks, this report makes it unequivocally clear that the time has come for the United States and its partners to definitively repudiate these illegal practices and secure accountability for the associated human rights abuses.

The Treatment of Prisoners Under International Law

The Treatment of Prisoners Under International Law
Author: Nigel Rodley
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 750
Release: 2009-08-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199215073

This book deals with a specialized area of international law relating to prisoners, especially as regards the worst abuses to which they may be subject, such as torture, enforced disappearance and summary or arbitrary executions.

Getting Away with Torture

Getting Away with Torture
Author: Reed Brody
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Abuse of administrative power
ISBN: 9781564327895

Recommendations -- Background: official sanction for crimes against detainees -- Torture of detainees in US counterterrorism operations -- Individual criminal responsibility -- Appendix: foreign state proceedings regarding US detainee mistreatment -- Acknowledgments and methodology.

The Road to Abu Ghraib

The Road to Abu Ghraib
Author: James F. Gebhardt
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2005
Genre: Prisoners of war
ISBN: 1428910107

The 2004 revelations of detainee maltreatment at the Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad, Iraq have led to an exhaustive overhaul of Army doctrine and training with respect to this topic. The Army has identified disconnects in its individual, leader, and collective training programs, and has also identified the absence of a deliberate, focused doctrinal crosswalk between the two principal branches concerned with detainees, Military Intelligence (MI) and Military Police (MP). These problems and their consequences are real and immediate. The perceptions of just treatment held by citizens of our nation and, to a great extent the world at large, have been and are being shaped by the actions of the US Army, both in the commission of detainee maltreatment but also, and more importantly, in the way the Army addresses its institutional shortcomings. This study examines the relationship over time between doctrine in two branches of the Army Military Police (MP) and Military Intelligence (MI) and the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (GPW). Specifically, it analyzes the MP detention field manual series and the MI interrogation field manual series to evaluate their GPW content. It also further examines the relationship of military police and military intelligence to each other in the enemy prisoner-of-war (EPW) and detainee operations environment, as expressed in their doctrinal manuals. Finally, the study looks at the Army's experience in detainee operations through the prism of six conflicts or contingency operations: the Korean War, Vietnam, Operation URGENT FURY (Grenada, 1983), Operation JUST CAUSE (Panama, 1989), Operation DESERT STORM (Iraq, 1991), and Operation UPHOLD DEMOCRACY (Haiti, 1994).

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Author: Jared Genser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 655
Release: 2019-09-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107034450

This book is a practical guide to freeing political prisoners and provides a comprehensive review of this UN body's 1,200 jurisprudence cases.