Torture

  • Blog Post

    May 6 2009 7:28 PM

    Ex-NYT Reporter on Torture Talk

    By Stan Alcorn

    Earlier today, former New York Times reporter Tim Weiner visited the Columbia J-School to give a talk to students billed as "All you ever wanted to know about TORTURE but were afraid to ask." Given the recent ambivalence of many American news organizations on the T word, we were curious to hear Weiner's take. More »

  • Blog Post

    Apr 17 2009 3:44 PM

    Torture and the Meaning of Words

    By Bruce Shapiro

    When should news stories label interrogation practices torture?

    That question arises from the Obama administration’s release of Bush administration legal memos endorsing - and precisely describing – the brutal abuse of "high-value" detainees. Never before has a president taken such an initiative in releasing basic documents about human rights abuses by the executive branch. More »

  • Behind the Story

    Trying to Wean Myself off War

    By An Anonymous Producer

    I got into Iran on a tourist visa to make a documentary about some human rights issues there. It was a difficult job because we had to set up clandestine interviews with activists, and I knew how risky this could be not just for myself as the filmmaker, but also those who took part in it.

  • Dart Award Honorable Mention

    Camp Z30-D: The Survivors

    By Anh Do, Tran Phan, and Eugene Garcia

    Written with grace and restraint, these stories of Vietnamese men and women imprisoned for “re-education” reveal their suffering in the camp and their struggles as refugees in the U.S. Originally published in the Orange County Register on April 29, 2001.

  • Dart Award Winner

    The Woman Who Wouldn't Die

    By Christine Evans

    The first-person story of a woman who survived years of abuse and hours of torture by her husband.  Originally published in the Palm Beach Post on December 6, 1998.

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