The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law

• New paperback edition of the groundbreaking book on the human rights of prisoners and detainees
• The only book that addresses the treatment of prisoners worldwide
• Comprehensive and critical analysis of the many developments in the field in the last ten years, including the measures taken by the US in the wake of 9/11 and its war against terror
• Written by the undisputed expert in the field

New to this edition

• Major new developments reflected in the new edition: - the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court - Convention aganst Disappearances - Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (establishing preventive machinery to visit people deprived of freedom) - Extensive case law of both Committees, the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights, the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the International Court of Justice - Some landmark national decisions, especially from the UK and the US

Readership: Students of international human rights law, international criminal law, and humanitarian law; scholars and practitioners in these areas

Nigel Rodley, Professor of Law and Chair, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex; Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and Matt Pollard, Legal adviser to Amnesty International in London and the Association for the Prevention of Torture in Geneva

Sir Nigel Rodley KBE, PhD is Professor of Law and Chair of the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. He is an elected member of the UN Human Rights Committee, established under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. He is also a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists. He has taught in North America and the UK. He founded Amnesty International's Legal Office in 1973 and ran it till 1990. He was the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture from 1993 to 2001. His work for Amnesty International and the United Nations allowed him to participate in the development of the field covered by the book. He was knighted in the 1998/1999 New Year's Honours 'for services to human rights and international law'.

Matt Pollard is Legal adviser to Amnesty International in London and the Association for the Prevention of Torture in Geneva.

Review(s) from previous edition

"`splendidly written and researched book' - American Society of International Law Newsletter

"This is a remarkable work, well-written and superbly well-researched." - AJ Bullier, Revue de Droit International et de Droit Compare

General Introduction
1: The Response of the United Nations General Assembly to the Challenge of Torture
2: The Legal Prohibition of Torture and Other Ill-Treatment
3: What Constitutes Torture and Other Ill-Treatment?
4: The Legal Consequences of Torture and Other Ill-Treatment
5: International Mechanisms against Torture and Other Ill-Treatment
6: Extra-legal Executions
7: The Death Penalty
8: Enforced Disappearance of Prisoners: Unacknowledged Detention
9: Conditions of Imprisonment or Detention
10: Corporal Punishment
11: Guarantees against Abuses of the Human Person: Arbitrary Arrest and Detention
12: International Codes of Ethics for Professionals
Concluding Reflections
Appendices