An official policy of torture corrupts the torturers and the people charged with overseeing it. |
The role of the torturers was played by plain-clothes officers from the local police. |
Another Greek sage and rhetorician, Antiphontas, also said that people subjected to torture only say what pleases their torturers. |
What the high court has done, however, is to at least bring the torturers within the orbit of the law, subject to some form of accountability and judicial restraint. |
It is no accident that he seeking to recruit the torturers, hangmen and thugs of the old Baathist regime. |
Do we trust torturers to pick the people they want to drag into a dark room? |