Title: Torture, truth and justice
Subtitle: the case of Timor-Leste
First published: 2008
Description: "Building on observations, documentary analysis and over seventy interviews with both torture victims and transitional justice workers this book explores how torture was used, suffered and resisted in Timor-Leste. The author investigates the extent to which transitional justice institutions have provided justice for torture victims. She illustrates how truth commissions and international courts operate together and reflecting on their successes and weaknesses with reference to wider social, political and economic conditions. Stanley also details victims' experiences of torture and highlights how they experience life in the newly built state of Timor-Leste." "Tracking the past, present and future of human rights, truth and justice for victims in Timor-Leste, Torture, Truth and Justice will be of interest to students, professionals and scholars of Asian studies, International Studies, Human Rights and Social Policy."--Jacket.
Subjects: Torture victims, Torture, Pacific area, social conditions, Social conditions, Asia, social conditions, Victimes de torture, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Penology, Folter, Justiz, Social history
Places: Timor-Leste, Social conditions, East Timor
LC classification: HV8599.E27 S83 2008