International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims

Editorial

Drawing the fine line between interrogation and torture: towards a Universal Protocol on Investigative Interviewing
Pau Pérez-Sales, Editor in Chief

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Scientific articles

Can disability predict treatment outcome among traumatized refugees?
Sabrina Friis Jørgensen, Mikkel A. Auning-Hansen, Ask Elklit

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Detainees' perception of the doctors and the medical institution in Spanish police stations: An impediment in the fight
against torture and ill-treatment
Hans Draminsky Petersen, Benito Morentin

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SPECIAL SECTION: IN THE NAME OF THE WAR ON TERROR

An Account of ‘Life after Guantánamo’: a rehabilitation project for former Guantánamo detainees across continents
Polly Rossdale, Katie Taylor

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Obstacles to torture rehabilitation at Guantánamo Bay
James Connell, Alka Pradhan, Margaux Lander

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The United States Supreme Court case Ziglar v. Abbasi and the severe psychological and physiological harms
of solitary confinement
Eric Ordway, Jessica Djilani, Alexandria Swette

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Perspectives

Torture without physical pain: Inside cell 24 of the special wing for political prisoners-Evin prison (Iran)
Hasti Irani

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Solitary confinement, Section 350, Evin prison in Tehran
S. M. Khodaei

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Obituary

Professor Bent Sørensen
Henrik Marcussen, MD, DMSc

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Book review

Combating Torture and other Ill-Treatment. A Manual for Action. London. 2016
By Amnesty International
Pau Pérez-Sales

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Letters to the Editor

Literature reviews are not all the same
Amanda C de C Williams

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Public perception does not accurately reflect resources available to survivors of torture in the United States
Alison L. Burke

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Volume 27 - Issue No. 2

Editorial

Scientific articles

Perspectives

Obituary

Book review

Letters to the Editor

Privacy Policy

Disclaimer