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    The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture

    Posted By: roxul
    Date: 12 Dec 2022 10:39:14
    The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture

    Lisa Hajjar, "The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture"
    English | ISBN: 0520378938 | 2022 | 376 pages | PDF | 4 MB

    How hundreds of lawyers mobilized to challenge the illegal treatment of prisoners captured in the war on terror and helped force an end to the US government's most odious policies.

    In The War in Court, sociologist Lisa Hajjar traces the fight against US torture policy by lawyers who brought the "war on terror" into courts. Their victories, though few and far between, forced the government to change the way prisoners were treated and focused attention on state crimes perpetrated in the shadows. If not for these lawyers and their allies, US torture would have gone unchallenged because elected officials and the American public, with a few exceptions, did nothing to oppose it. This war in court has been fought to defend the principle that there is no legal right to torture.

    Told as a suspenseful, high-stakes story,
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