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The Similarity of Russian and American Torture

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THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2023
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
– Frederick Douglass [1886]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
April 6, 2023

The Similarity of Russian and American Torture
In my blog post yesterday, I pointed out, in the context of Russia’s arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, similarities between Russia’s criminal-justice system and the Pentagon’s criminal-justice system in Cuba. I also pointed out that as the Russian prosecution of Gershkovich unfolds, it will provide valuable lessons for Americans about what the Pentagon has done to pervert long-established …
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