That playbook of tactics, honed against RNC 2000 protesters, included heavy surveillance and infiltration, the establishment of anti-free speech ordinances and sweeping "security zones," political interrogations, unlawful stops and searches, preemptive raids on activist spaces, massive numbers of police in the streets, indiscriminate police violence, and mass arrests.
Mr. Mintz would later become an adversary of Mr. Chertoff in an extraordinary episode of political theater, the interrogation of State Supreme Court Justice Peter Verniero in 2001.
For example, a 1976 report by the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists concluded: There is abundant evidence showing the systematic use of impermissible methods of psychological and physical torture of political suspects during interrogation.
Tomoko Yoneda's photographs of empty rooms with peeling paint and stained floors could easily be in interiors in that wreck, though they have a source in reality: they're vacated spaces in the former headquarters of Korea's Defense Security Command in Seoul, once a scene of political detentions and interrogations under torture.
Within the agency, he said, there is a "high level of anxiety about political retribution" for the interrogation program.
Only his interrogation for political reasons temporarily separates the two, but Mao Zedong and ideological wars remain far removed, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times, in "a cinematic ballad of such seamless construction and exquisite tonal balance it transcends most of the pitfalls of movies that aspire to a classic, lyric simplicity".
The Germans requisitioned the former Belgian army Fort Breendonk, near Mechelen, which was used for torture and interrogation of political prisoners and members of the resistance.
Though a leader of relative liberalism in the Middle East, Egypt's government has also worked at suppressing political opposition, employed torturous interrogation tactics and has a less-than-favorable human rights record.
