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A History of Torture in Britain (Paperback)
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A History of Torture in Britain (Paperback)
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Loot Price R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
You Save R74 (18%)
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There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture
has never been legal in Britain. This old wives' tale arose because
torture had been neither endorsed nor forbidden by either statute
or common law. In other words; the law has, until the late
twentieth century, never had anything to say on the subject. In
fact, torture, inflicted both as punishment and as an aid to
interrogation, has been a constant and recurring feature of British
life; from the beginning of the country's recorded history, until
well into the twentieth century. Even as late as 1976, the European
Court of Human Rights ruled that the British Army was guilty of the
systematic torture of suspected terrorists. In 'A History of
Torture in Britain' Simon Webb traces the terrible story of the
deliberate use of pain on prisoners in Britain and its overseas
possessions. Beginning with the medieval trial by ordeal, which
entailed carrying a red-hot iron bar in your bare hand for a
certain distance, through to the stretching on the rack of
political prisoners and the mutilation of those found guilty of
sedition; the evidence clearly shows that Britain has relied
heavily upon torture, both at home and abroad, for almost the whole
of its history. This sweeping and authoritative account of a grisly
and distasteful subject is likely to become the definitive history
of the judicial infliction of pain in Britain and its Empire.
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