Torture in Israel and the Occupied Territories

Learning from the past to face the challenges ahead: Celebrating 30 years of Torture Journal

“…The editors decided in 1991 to re-number the Journal and begin from Volume 1 again although nothing changed in the format nor the contents. They were similar to the 1988-1991 pre-launch phase: welcoming new centres, continuous education, news and summaries of conferences hosted by RCT/IRCT, besides the first very epidemiological studies on the prevalence of torture methods and impacts in selected samples of survivors (Fine, 1993;Larsen et al, 1995;London & Dowdall, 1993). Particularly moving were the testimonies of doctors who had suffered torture first-hand (Marcelino, 1992;Tarakcioglu, 1992).…”

“…Also, the works on bone scintigraphy as a form of medium and long-term documentation of physical torture (Lok et al, 1991), and the first reviews and series on medical documentation of falanga (Rasmussen & Skylv, 1993;Skylv, 1993) and the use of electroencephalography and evoked potentials in the documentation of torture (Vrca, 1993;Vrca & Bobic, 1993). There were also some of the first small series (for today's standards) of forensic examinations with torture survivors (Fine, 1993;M. Larsen et al, 1995).…”