The Long Shadow of Torture
An Iranian-American political scientist, our guest is one of the world's leading experts on torture, and on how democracies change torture and are changed by it. We'll explore how his knowledge might deepen public discourse about practices in U.S. military prisons in recent years — and inform our collective reckoning with consequences yet to unfold.
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Three Cambodian girls view photos of victims of torture at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh. The site is a former high school that was converted into a prison by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s.
