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PEN Members Speak Out

Edwidge Danticat:
Does It Work?


Marguerite Feitlowitz:
The Torturer General


Ariel Dorfman:
Are We Really So Fearful?


Mark Danner:
We Are All Torturers Now


Luc Sante:
Torturers and Terrorists
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Torture is Wrong, Illegal and Un-American
 
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Key provisions of international law prohibiting torture, rendition, and arbitrary detention.


Article 5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 9
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11
Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.


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