Event: American Torture

The event is part of a series hosted by NYU Wagner.

American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond
Thursday, October 4^th, 12:30-1:30pm
Rudin Forum, The Puck Building, 295 Lafayette St., 2nd Fl.

Meet RA Trish in the Broome Lobby at 12:00 pm, or meet her there!

RSVP for this event online, or by calling the NYU Wagner RSVP line at 212-998-7546.

Michael Otterman, freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker; former visiting scholar at the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS) at the University of Sydney.

In American Torture (Pluto Press, 2007), Michael Otterman reveals how torture became standard practice in today's War on Terror and how it was refined, spread and legalized. Long before Abu Ghraib became a household name, the US military and CIA had used torture with impunity both at home and abroad. As the Cold War ended, these tortures were legalized using the very laws designated to eradicate their use. After 9/11, the practices were revived again for use on 'enemy combatants' detained in America's vast network of prisons across the globe, from secret CIA black sites in Thailand to the detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Thanks folks, and we’ll see you there!