Search results for "torture"
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Torture and Maltreatment in Prison: A Medico-Legal Perspective
2023
The maltreatment and torture of prisoners constitute a global problem. Methods of maltreatment are classified as the psychological and the physical, and physical methods inevitably lead to psychological sequelae. Our review offers an analysis from the medico-legal perspective of the literature on the torture and physical and sexual abuse experienced by prisoners and their psychological sequelae and aims to investigate the medico-legal issues of investigating maltreatment in prison so as to suggest methodologies and updated approaches for dealing with such cases in a forensic context. We performed a comprehensive literature search of peer-reviewed publications (articles and reviews), researc…
Torture, démocratisation et terrorisme en Espagne
2015
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The Loss of Confidence in the World
2018
In this chapter, I focus on the experience of torture and, more specifically, on Jean Améry's account of it in his book *At the Mind's Limits*. There he claims that the loss of confidence in the world is the most devastating effect he experienced as a victim of torture. I thus explore what cosmopolitan aspiration may be revealed by this loss and also discuss whether it is to be discredited as an irrational reaction on the victim's side or instead as proportional to the facts and, consequently, as relevant to the conditions under which a certain cosmopolitan aspiration could be achieved or, at least, favored.
Soundless Screams: Graffiti and Drawings in the Prisons of the Holy Office in Palermo
2017
The discovery of graffiti in the early years of the twentieth century by the folklorist Giuseppe Pitré left by prisoners of the tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition in Palermo has been followed by more extensive investigations in recent years. These images and words have added a concrete and particular dimension to Sicily’s position at the crossroads of the Mediterranean. As well as images of saints and naval battles are to be found inscriptions not only in Italian, Sicilian and Latin but also in English and Hebrew. This article cross references this visual and textual evidence with the relevant archives of the tribunal in order to provide a powerful microhistory of suffering and resilience …
The Perpetrator's mise-en-scene: Language, Body, and Memory in the Cambodian Genocide
2018
Rithy Panh's film S-21. The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) was the result of a three-year shooting period in the Khmer Rouge centre of torture where perpetrators and victims exchanged experiences and re-enacted scenes from the past under the gaze of the filmmaker's camera. Yet, a crucial testimony was missing in that puzzle: the voice of the prison's director, Kaing Guek Eav, comrade Duch. When the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) were finally established in Phnom Penh to judge the master criminals of Democratic Kampuchea, the first to be indicted was this desk criminal. The film Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (R. Panh, 2011) deploys a new confrontation – an a…
Cuentos de fantasmas. Persistencia espectral de los centros de detención y tortura chilenos
2020
Los centros de detención y tortura de la dictadura chilena han desaparecido o están desapareciendo. Con ello, las memorias de dichos lugares parecen asimismo perderse. Sostendremos aquí, no obstante, que la desaparición física de los lugares no implica la pérdida de todo rastro, puesto que su recuerdo subsiste a través de otros medios, como la tradición oral. Exploramos, en particular, la posibilidad de que sean los relatos de actividad sobrenatural, los así llamados “cuentos de fantasmas”, los que sirvan de escenario público de la memoria social, permitiendo que esta sea convocada.
Genocide, torture, and terrorism: ranking international crimes and justifying humanitarian intervention
2018
Inquisitio Contra Haereticos. I Processi dell’Inquisizione a Streghe, Eretici e Società Segrete
2021
(Libro di saggistica) Catalogo monografico e ragionato della Mostra internazionale sull'evoluzione dell'Inquisizione, curata a Palermo da Antonio Scaglione e Francesco Callari. La Mostra si compone di XI sezioni tematiche, articolate in 22 postazioni narrative, e mira a ricostruire, mediante preziosi documenti inediti e rarissimi libri antichi, risalenti fino al XVI secolo, uno dei fenomeni più complessi, variegati e controversi della Storia europea, nonché, in particolare, della Storia della Sicilia, ove l'attività del Tribunale del Santo Ufficio dell'Inquisizione operò fino al 1782. La Mostra, che è supportata da un autorevole Comitato Scientifico, ha ricevuto notevoli riconoscimenti isti…
Découvrir l'imposteur : expertises dans la prison de Valence au milieu du xve siècle
2020
Les médecins étaient souvent appelés à intervenir en tant qu’experts dans les cours de justice de la ville de Valence à la fin du Moyen Âge. Ils étaient sollicités pour des raisons diverses et on attendait d’eux qu’ils rendent des jugements ou des pronostics. Un des cadres dans lesquels ils apparaissaient est la prison. La torture faisait partie du développement des procédures judiciaires en tant qu’élément destiné à prouver les faits, pour empêcher que le juge ait le moindre doute. Les doutes suscités par de possibles simulations requéraient les compétences de ces experts, à qui revenait la décision d’infliger ou non la torture au prisonnier. Cet article analyse par le menu un cas particul…
Música medieval al més enllà
2007
According to the Middle Ages anthropomorphic and anachronical conception, in the other world -in heaven and in hell- they play, listen and dance different musics, vochal and instrumental, mystical hymns or torture shapes. There is too a defined and giving legitimation liturgycal and musical collaboration between heaven and earth’s church, which devils try to sabotage. And different heavenly and hellish attitudes, from pleasure to absolut condemnation, towards human musicians and musics.