imprisonment

On 2 March 1998, 10-year-old Natascha Kampusch vanished on her way to school in Vienna, Austria. She had been abducted by Wolfgang Přiklopil and imprisoned in a secret basement cell beneath his house. Eight years later, she escaped—and her captor took his own life the same day.

When the United States opened Guantánamo Bay detention camp in 2002, it became the site of documented torture affecting approximately 780 men and boys from 48 countries. Over two decades later, verified interrogation techniques including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and sexual assault remain central to understanding post-9/11 American detention practices.