Madame is a
torture aficionado.

She even created a Torture Infographic for you to enjoy:

FAQs

How was this infographic created?

Madame pored over the 712 pages (plus annotation) collected from the Report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program (“CIA Torture Report” executive summary).

Additional resources were similarly analyzed, including but not limited to:

Carle, G. L. (2012). Interrogator: An education. Nation Books.

Santini, S. (2011). The Catalog of Cruelty: An Illustrated Collection of ancient restraints and medieval instruments of torture and execution. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Milewski, A., Weinstein, E., Lurie, J., Lee, A., Taki, F., Pilato, T., Jedlicka, C., & Kaur, G. (2023, October 2). Reported methods, distributions, and frequencies of torture globally: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA network open. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10548313/

  • SERE Training / Educational Materials

  • Victims’ Accounts of torture endured during abduction, capture, and war

  • Historical accounts of torture incurred by POWs (non-civilian)

Madame’s continuing education includes:

Addameer Collects Hard Evidence on Torture and Ill-Treatment Committed against Palestinian Detainees at Israeli Interrogation Centers | Addameer

Torture | Human Rights Watch (hrw.org)

Committee against Torture | OHCHR

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