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Torture and Democracy

Darius Rejali, Joanne J. Myers

March 13, 2008

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In his exhaustive study, Darius Rejali traces the history of torture through the ages. He concludes that most "clean" tortures that leave no marks were actually born in democracies, especially imperial Britain and France.
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Darius Rejali

Joanne J. Myers

Keywords
Torture, Human Rights

Topic
Human Rights

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