"Torture" in the Dock.

The article discusses the use of torture against inmates and prisoners in the U.S. and Germany. A description is given of a German case in which the threat of torture was used against kidnapping suspect Magnus Gäfgen in 2002. In June 2008, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) cleared Germany of charges of tolerating torture in the case of Gafgen, the author states. Other topics include charges of the use of torture on detainees at the U.S. Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp located in Cuba.