"they are punishing him primarily to scare everybody else, to make sure you don’t want to launch #Wikileaks and disclose all these secrets. The message is: “If ever you have evidence of atrocious crimes, don’t disclose it, because this is what will happen to you”."
Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
Looks like Melzer's book (published today) is a very important piece...