IAN COBAIN
Ian Cobain was born in Liverpool in 1960. He has been a journalist since the early 1980s and is currently an investigative reporter with the Guardian. His inquiries into the UK's involvement in torture since 9/11 have won a number of major awards, including the Martha Gellhorn Prize and the Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism. He has also won several Amnesty International media awards. Cobain lives in London with his wife and two children.
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LATEST BOOK: CRUEL BRITANNIA: OUR SECRET HISTORY OF TORTURE
Great Britain: the island of fair play. We have a proud heritage of leading the world on humanitarian issues and were among the first nations to ratify the Geneva Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights. But this is only part of the truth, according to award-winning Guardian reporter Ian Cobain. Our public face of decency hides a secret history of using torture and developing torture techniques. In this damning book, Ian Cobain shows how Britain has repeatedly resorted to torturing our enemies, particularly during the Second World War, across our declining empire, throughout the Cold War, in Northern Ireland and in Iraq; and now - following 9/11 - we collaborate in the torture of our own nationals on foreign soil. And then we cover it up. And deny it if challenged. Cruel Britannia will uncover our nation's dirty little secret and reveal that, rather than being un-British, torture is as British as red pillar-boxes and suet pudding.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Cruel Britannia: Our Secret History of Torture: sold to Portobello Books for publication in 2011/2012.
