Torture

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• Torture -- Early works to 1800
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• Torture -- Iraq
• Torture -- Israel
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• Torture -- Kenya
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• Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Torture -- Periodicals
• Torture -- Prevention
• Torture -- Rome
• Torture -- Russia
• Torture -- Russia (Federation)
• Torture -- Saudi Arabia
• Torture -- Senegal
• Torture -- Soviet Union
• Torture -- Syria
• Torture -- Thailand
• Torture -- Turkey
• Torture -- United States
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• Torture -- Law and legislation

• Arming the Torturers: Electro-Shock Torture and the Spread of Stun Technology (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)
• Defensa de la tortura y leyes patrias que la establecieron: (Madrid, M. Escribano, 1778), by Pedro de Castro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Im zeichen der Grausamkeit; skizzen zur geschichte der leibes- und lebensstrafen im alten Wien, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der verschiedenen hinrichtungsarten und der zauberei, nach Schlager, Realis und p.M. Fuhrmann; hrsg. von Franz Unger. (München, Wien, F.C. Mickl [etc., etc., 1903]), by Franz Unger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die tortur, geschichte der folter im kriminalverfahren aller völker und zeiten. Zwei teile in einem bande; 1. teil: Vom altertum bis zur reformation; 2. teil: Vonder reformation bis zur gegenwart. Mit dreiundvierzig illustrationen ... (Berlin, P. Langenscheidt, [1913]), by Franz Helbing (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Bedeutung der Folterung im attischen processe ... von Moriz Guggenheim ... (Zürich, D. Bürkli, 1882), by Moriz Guggenheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Practice of torture by foreign governments and U.S. efforts to oppose its use hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, June 26, 1984. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Torture Victim Protection Act hearing and markup before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations of the House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, on H.R. 1417, March 23, April 20, and June 7, 1988. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1988), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vekkariou Peri adikēmatōn kai poinōn, metaphrasmenon apo tēn italikēn glōssan. (Athēnai, 1823), by Cesare Beccaria (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on crimes and punishments / translated from the Italian ; with a commentary, attributed to Mons. de Voltaire, translated from the French. (London : Printed for J. Almon, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, 1767), by Cesare Beccaria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Razsuzhdenīe o prestuplenīi͡akh i nakazanīi͡akh / perevedeno s Italīi͡anskago i͡azyka na Frant͡suzskoĭ Andreem Morelletom, a s onago na Rossīĭskoĭ Dmitrīem I͡Azykovym ; s prisovokuplenīem primi͡echanīĭ Diderota i perepiski sochiniteli͡a s Morelletom. (V Sanktpeterburgi͡e : Pri Gubernskom Pravlenīi, 1803), by Cesare Beccaria (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on crimes and punishments, tr. from the Italian; with a commentary, attributed to Mons. de Voltaire, tr. from the French. (Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw, 1767), by Cesare Beccaria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des délits et des peines, par Beccaria, traduit de L'italien par André Morellet. (Paris, Imprimerie du Journal d'Economie publique, de Morale et de Politique, 1797), by Cesare Beccaria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Kampff und Sieg der ersten Blut-Zeugen Jesu Christi, durch Glauben und Gedult, nach alphabetischer Ordnung entworffen, und in Kupffern vorgestellet, von J.E. Collin. Nebst des Verfassers erbaulichem Lebens-Lauff. (Franckfurt, 1738), by Johann Eberhardt Collin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bekkarii͡a o prestuplenii͡akh i nakazanii͡akh v sravnenii s glavoi͡u X-i͡u nakaza Ėkateriny II i s sovremennymi russkimi zakonami : materialy dli͡a razrabotki sravnitelʹnago izuchenii͡a teorii i praktiki ugolovnago zakonodatelʹstva / S. Zarudnago. (S.-Peterburg : V tip. Vtorago Otdi͡elenii͡a Sobstvennoĭ E.I.V. Kant͡seli͡arii, 1879), by Cesare Beccaria (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Beccaria et le droit pénal : essai / par César Cantù ; ouvrage traduit, annotè, précédé d'un avant-propos et d'une introduction par Jules Lacointa et C. Delpech. (Paris : Librairie de Firmin-Didot, 1885), by Cesare Cantù (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essay on crimes and punishments / translated from the Italian of Beccaria ; with the commentary, by Voltaire, translated from the French. (London : Printed by E. Hodson for J. Bone, 1801), by Cesare Beccaria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des dėlits et des peines, par Boccaria. (Paris, Guillaumin et #, 1870), by Cesare Bonesana Boccaria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vekkariou Peri adikēmatōn kai poinōn, metaphrasmenon apo tēn italikēn glōssan. (Athēnai, Proodos (G. Vlassaridēs), 1842), by Cesare Beccaria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred violence : torture, terror, and sovereignty / Paul W. Kahn. (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Paul W. Kahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dei delitti e delle pene. (Strasburgo, Heitz; Nuova York, G.E.Stechert & co.;, [1911?]), by Cesare Beccaria (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Superstition and force. (Philadelphia, H.C. Lea, 1878), by Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Superstition and force. Essays on the wager of law--the wager of battle--the ordeal--torture. (Philadelphia, H.C. Lea, 1866), by Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ti͡azhelai͡a pami͡atʹ proshlago : razskazy iz di͡el Taĭnoĭ Kant͡seli͡arīi i drugikh arkhivov / G.V. Esipova. (S.-Peterburg : Izd. A.S. Suvorina, 1885), by G. V. Esipov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Torture Victim Protection Act of 1989 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session, on S. 1629 ... and H.R. 1662 ... June 22, 1990. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1991), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corona qvaestionvm ivridicarvm, ac tam civilivm qvam criminalivm : e meditullio legum imperatoriarum contexta, quarum praecipua est tractatio de possessore, de indiciis, de tortura et gabellis / auctore Francisco Persona (Francofurti : Schönwetter, 1599), by Franciscus Personalis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beccaria e il diritto penale; saggio di Cesare Cantù. (Firenze, G. Barbèra, 1862), by Cesare Cantù (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beccaria, Ueber Verbrechen und Strafen nebst Anmerkungen und einem Anhange: Graf Röderer, Ueber die Abschaffung der Todesstrafe. Uebersetzt und mit Vorwort und beccaria's Biographie versehen von M. Waldeck ... (Berlin, L. Heimann, 1870), by Cesare Beccaria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des délits et des peines, par Beccaria. (Paris, Guillaumin et cie, 1870), by Cesare Beccaria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des délits et des peines, par Beccaria. (Paris, Guillaumin, 1856), by Cesare Beccaria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supersitition and force. Essays on the wager of law--the wager of battle--the ordeal--torture. (Philadelphia, H. C. Lea, 1866), by Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Superstition and force : essays on the wager of law, the wager of battle, the ordeal, torture / by Henry C. Lea. (Philadelphia : H.C. Lea, 1870), by Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Superstition and force; essays on the wager of law--the wager of battle--the ordeal--torture. (Philadelphia, Lea Brothers & Co., 1892), by Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Li͡udi starago vi͡eka. (1880), by G. V. Esipov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The phenomenon of torture : hearings and markup before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, on H.J. Res. 605, May 15, 16; September 6, 1984. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practice of torture by foreign governments and U.S. efforts to oppose its use : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, June 26, 1984. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des tribunaux et de la procédure du grand criminel au XVIIIe siècle jusqu'en 1789 : avec des recherches sur la question ou torture (Paris : A.Aubry, 1859), by Charles Berriat-Saint-Prix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die peinliche gerichtsordnung kaiser Karls V. Constitutio criminalis Carolina. Kritisch hrsg. von J. Kohler und Willy Scheel ... (Halle s. S., Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1900), by Holy Roman Empire (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Constitutio criminalis Theresiana, oder, der Römisch-Kaiserl. ... Majestät Mariä Theresiä ... Peinliche Gerichtsordnung. (Wien : gedruckt bey J.T. Edlen von Trattnern, kaiserl. königl. Hofbuchdruckern und Buchhändlern, 1769), by Austria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peines, tortures et supplices (in French) (Gutenberg ebook)

• Command's Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan (New York: Human Rights First, 2006), by Hina Shamsi, ed. by Deborah Pearlstein (PDF with commentary at humanrightsfirst.org)

• Cameroon: Blatant Disregard for Human Rights (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• The current situation in Croatia / briefing of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. (Washington, DC : The Commission, [1997]), by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Political Imprisonment in Cuba (reprint; CANF pamphlet #22; Washington, DC: Cuban American National Foundation, 1987), by Amnesty International (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)

• Essai sur l'usage, l'abus et les inconveniens de la torture dans la procédure criminelle / par Mr. S. D. C. (A Lausanne : chez François Grasset & Comp. ; et se vend à Mons : chez Henri Hoyois ..., 1779), by François Seigneux de Correvon (page images at HathiTrust)

• In der Strafkolonie (in German), by Franz Kafka (Gutenberg ebook)

• Histoire des tortures au XIXme siècle / par le marquis De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt. (Paris : Morris, 1859), by Frédéric-Gaétan La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Ervand Abrahamian (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Command's Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan (New York: Human Rights First, 2006), by Hina Shamsi, ed. by Deborah Pearlstein (PDF with commentary at humanrightsfirst.org)
• Human rights violations under Saddam Hussein : victims speak out : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, November 20, 2003. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2004), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia (page images at HathiTrust)

• Israel / South Lebanon: Israel's Forgotten Hostages: Lebanese Detainees in Israel and Khiam Detention Centre (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• Suspicious Sweeps: The General Intelligence Department and Jordan's Rule of Law Problem (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2006), by Christoph Wilcke (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

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