Amnesty International/Reprieve conference: Torture is killing a person without them dying

Index Number: POL 30/036/2005
Date Published: 20 November 2005

This news feature is about family members of Guantánamo Bay detainees expressing the difficulties and desperation of not knowing if their loved one is being tortured and whether they will ever see them again at the conference hosted by Amnesty International and Reprieve. The conference considered incommunicado detention and the disappearance of those held in secret detention and discussed the medical impact and the effects of torture.