Title of the article

Bojinka Project – Can Terrorists Be Tortured (Modern Doctrine and Legal Prohibition)?

 Authors 

Georgy B. Romanovsky — AHead, Department of Criminal Law, Institute of Law, Penza State University, Doctor of Law, Professor, 40 Krasnaya Street, Penza, 440026, Russia, vlad93@sura.ru 

 Category 

STATE-LEGAL AND POLITICAL LIFE IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION

Year,.Volume, Number 

2020, Vol. 8, № 4 (32)

 Pages 

51-58

 Article type 

Original article

 Index UDK 

343.326

 DOI 

10.21685/2307-9525-2020-8-4-6

 Abstract 

The article analyzes the modern interpretation of locked torture. As an example, we took a situation that has received the name in the scientific literature – «Bojink's project». The story is connected with the capture of active terrorists in the Philippines who were preparing massive airplane explosions. One of the captured members of the terrorist organization was severely tortured, after which he was handed over to the US authorities, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment. The article examines the concept of "catastrophic terrorism", which allows researchers to raise the question of the balance of values when giving an order to torture terrorists. The point of view of such famous foreign scientists as M. Walzer, M. Ignatieff, A. Dershowitz is presented. It is shown that, given the vulnerability of states and societies to critical infrastructure and many technologies, the problem of the balance of values in the issue of torture of terrorists becomes more and more urgent.

 Keywords 

terrorism, counteraction, human rights, prohibition, torture, the Bojinka project

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Romanovsky G.B. Bojinka Project – Can Terrorists Be Tortured (Modern Doctrine and Legal Prohibition)? Electronic scientific journal «Science. Society. State», 2020, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 51-58, available at: http://esj.pnzgu.ru. DOI: 10.21685/2307-9525-2020-8-4-6. (In Russian).