The Justice Department published a revised and expansive definition late yesterday of acts that constitute torture under domestic and international law, overtly repudiating one of the most criticized ...

Shukrije Gashi spent nearly two years as a political prisoner in Kosovo. Strictly speaking, she wasn't tortured, but 2 1/2 decades later it feels that way. A pro-independence activist when Yugoslav ...

This month President Bush admitted for the first time that the CIA has maintained secret prisons in foreign countries where prisoners have been held since 2002 in solitary confinement. He acknowledged ...

On Thursday, the Obama administration released previously classified memos detailing interrogation techniques used against enemy prisoners. In the memos, Bush administration lawyers assured the CIA ...

A. Some of the interrogation methods may fit a legal or common-sense definition of torture. Others may not. To refer to the whole range of practices as "torture" would be simply polemical. But ...

Critics and defenders of the harsh interrogation methods applied to captured terrorists can argue forever over whether those methods were “torture.” But any serious discussion of a serious issue — and ...

WASHINGTON -- A prisoner doesn't have to undergo excruciating pain to be considered a victim of torture, the Justice Department now says. But it's not clear whether this revised, broader definition of ...