Ian Cobain & Philippe Sands
Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture
- Date & Time
- 25 Nov 2012 - 17:30pm
- Venue
- Cambridge Union Library
- Ticket price
- £8/£7/£5
- Booking URL
- https://www.adcticketing.com/choose-seats.aspx?EventInstanceId=4681&eventID=6502
- Genre
- Non Fiction
- Authors
A fascinating and important documentation that shatters the official line that the UK does not ‘participate in, solicit, encourage or condone’ torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutable: when faced with potential threats to national security, the gloves always come off. Drawing on previously unseen official documents, freedom of information requests, and the accounts of witnesses, victims and military experts, Cobain uncovers a shocking record of systematic torture, from WWII to the War on Terror, via Kenya and Northern Ireland.
Ian Cobain is an investigative reporter with The Guardian. His inquiries into the UK’s involvement in torture since 9/11 have won the Martha Gellhorn Prize and the Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism, and he has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. He has won several Amnesty International media awards and a Liberty award.
Ian Cobain will be in conversation with Philippe Sands, Professor of International Law at University College London and author of the acclaimed Torture Team.
The Full Line up
- Philip Augar
- Gillian Beer
- Melissa Benn
- Tony Benn
- Billy Boyle
- Antonio Carluccio
- Chris Clarke
- Ian Cobain
- Artemis Cooper
- Charles Cotton
- Gavin Esler
- Orlando Figes
- John Gapper
- Simon Garfield
- Henrietta Garnett
- Joanne Harris
- Hermann Hauser
- John Hegley
- Mark Henderson
- Martin Hickman
- Tom Holland
- Michael Jacobs
- William Janeway
- Kate Kirk
- Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Paul Lewis
- Andrew Marr
- Kate Mosse
- Ferdinand Mount
- Clare Mulley
- Maajid Nawaz
- Edna O' Brien
- Nick Robinson
- Philippe Sands
- Robert Skidelsky
- Edward Skidelsky
- Ali Smith
- Keir Starmer
- Jack Straw
- Kate Summerscale
- Rose Tremain
- Salley Vickers
- Tom Watson
