Litigating Torture
Following the attacks of September 11th, the administration of George W. Bush instituted the widespread use of coercive interrogations of detainees, as well as kidnapping, forced disappearance, and sham commission proceedings. Yet for the first several years of the \u201cwar on terror\u201d little was known about what the U.S. state was doing to prisoners, until hundreds of lawyers\u2014some from the left, but others even from the military itself\u2014challenged the U.S. government in court. Sociologist Lisa Hajjar describes the legal fight against torture and its legacy now. \nResources:\nLisa Hajjar, The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture UC Press, 2022\nThe post Litigating Torture appeared first on KPFA.