A new book from former UN Special Reporter on Torture, Professor Manfred Nowak. The book, titled Torture: the banality of the unfathomable (in German: Folter: Die Alltäglichkeit des Unfassbaren) chronicles Professor Nowak’s experiences in documenting torture around the world, both during his professional career and during his mandate for the UN, where he traveled to almost 20 countries in all regions of the world.

In his new book, former UN Special Reporter on Torture (UNSRT) Manfred Nowak, reports of the experiences he made during his fact-finding visits while holding the mandate from 2004 to 2010. He draws the conclusion that not only the secret police of so called rogue states are practicing torture, but that even in democracies ill-treatment is in the standard repertoire of normal criminal investigation. The book "Torture”: “The banality of the inconceivable" is at this point only published in German.

·  ISBN-10: 3218008336

·  ISBN-13: 978-3218008334 

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