> neither the US or UK have ever imprisoned and tortured a journalist from a major publication (unless I'm overlooking someone). This was in the news just last

> neither the US or UK have ever imprisoned and tortured a journalist from a major publication (unless I'm overlooking someone). This was in the news just last month: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/soldiers-burst-in-the-back-door-to-torture-me-with-electric-shocks-sg0h8tjjd https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/soldiers-burst-in-the-bac... > A Belfast-born writer who has been a consistent critic of IRA violence has revealed how the British Army subjected him to electric shock torture outside his family home in the early years of the Northern Ireland conflict. > Journalist turned novelist Malachi O’Doherty describes in a new memoir how soldiers first threatened to shoot him, then dragged him through a hedge, kicked him and eventually resorted to inflicting electric shocks to try to extract information about the local IRA.