Where the law stops: Torture, power, and the failure of prevention in Ghana

Torture begins with power. It emerges, almost imperceptibly, in those spaces where authority is unchecked and the human person is reduced, first to a suspect, then to a problem, and finally to an object. It thrives in detention rooms without witnesses, in interrogation practices justified by urgency, in institutional cultures that prize confession over truth. Torture is rarely announced. It is normalised. It is rationalised. It is hidden in routine.

By Andrea Baaba Appiah