title: Why are torturers never punished?
abstract: In 1974, a young woman was arrested and tortured in Calcutta, India. After her release from detention, three years later, she filed a petition against her torturers. Ten years later, the case is still pending before a lower court in Calcutta. A review of the case indicates the need for great strength to survive torture without the loss of will to bring the case to justice.
authors.affiliation: International Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT), Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vesti
mesh_terms: D003416:Criminal Law; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007603:Jurisprudence; D011329:Prisoners; D014104:Torture; D014754:Violence