Getting Away with Torture

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BOOK REVIEW

Getting Away with Torture
By Tripathi, Deepak
Book: Getting Away with Torture: Secret Government, War Crimes, and the Rule of Law

Only about 20 years ago, the United States was the preferred destination for dissidents tortured and incarcerated in secret prisons in the Soviet Union and satellite states in Eastern Europe.

As the Iron Curtain was blown, who could have imagined that barely a decade after, the United States would commit large-scale acts of kidnapping, torture and murder beyond its territory and send people, based on mere suspicion or hearsay, to secret prisons in ex-Soviet bloc countries for interrogation under torture, euphemistically called ‘extraordinary rendition'?

The unimaginable two decades before happened during the presidency of the George W Bush.

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