‘A Few Rotten Apples’: A Review of Alleged Detainee Abuse by British Personnel in Iraq Following the Al Sweady Inquiry. Is There Still a Case to Answer?

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-304
Author(s):  
Tim Wood
Keyword(s):  
Detainee Abuse

Too Dangerous to Disclose? FOIA, Courtroom “Visual Theory,” and the Legal Battle Over Detainee Abuse Photographs

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (04) ◽  
pp. 1164-1187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Veronica Banchik
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Visual Data ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Visual Theory ◽  
Photographic Evidence ◽  
Single Judge ◽  
Detainee Abuse ◽  
Legal Battle

As law deepens its engagement with visual data, legal scholars have expressed concern that courts all too often uphold photographic evidence as objective representations of truth, rather than as necessarily partial portrayals of reality. To combat this naïve realism in legal institutions, some are incorporating insights from media studies in calling for a jurisprudence of the visual. Drawing on an ongoing lawsuit over the disclosure of detainee abuse photographs taken in Iraq and Afghanistan after September 11, I suggest this project expand its scope to examine litigants' interpretations of images in courtrooms, as well as concerns beyond photographic objectivity that arise in disclosure disputes, including images' unique privacy implications and national security risks. Though the stakes in this case are atypical, these specific concerns are to varying degrees more germane. Having all been raised before, they are likely to be heard again, if only by a single judge or jury.

Standard Operating Procedure: Mediating Torture

2009 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caetlin Benson-Allott
Keyword(s):  
Operating Procedure ◽  
Standard Operating Procedure ◽  
Abu Ghraib ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
Standard Operating ◽  
Detainee Abuse ◽  
The U.S

Abstract Errol Morris's Standard Operating Procedure offers the U.S. soldiers accused of detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq a forum in which to give accounts of their infamous photographs. However, the vexing digitality of those images foregrounds the role of interpretation in the construction of visual evidence.

scholarly journals Veterans’ Distress Related to Participation in a Study About Detainee Abuse

2009 ◽  
Vol 174 (11) ◽  
pp. 1149-1154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine O. Gariti ◽  
Leila Sadeghi ◽  
Sowmya D. Joisa ◽  
William C. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Detainee Abuse

Geneva Convention Compliance in Iraq and Afghanistan

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Grimm Arsenault
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Geneva Convention ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
The People ◽  
The Right ◽  
Detainee Abuse

US compliance with the Geneva Conventions in Iraq and Afghanistan appeared to vary with the particular subject matter and battle space. In military operations during the last decade, the United States assessed the legality of virtually every proposed target to avoid the intentional targeting of civilians. Legal specialists also, however, flagrantly overlooked Common Article 3’s minimum prescription that all captured individuals have the right to be treated humanely. This variation in compliance is explained by the shift in mission objectives: When the United States approached these conflicts as purely counterterror operations, the goal was to disrupt the enemy. However, under the population-centric counterinsurgency mission, noncompliance with the Geneva Conventions equated to mission failure. The shift from counterterrorism to counterinsurgency increased US sensitivity to civilian casualties and the operational consequences of detainee abuse. By adapting practice to comply with the Conventions, the people became the prize in the war on terror.

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