"Courage, Brother!"
They understood that, like them, I had been tortured and greeted me as I passed: ‘Courage, Brother!’
I open with this brief excerpt from “Torture,” a book by Henri Alleg—initially a pseudonym, then a nom de guerre, then an adopted name—of Harry John Salem1:
“...I would pass in the corridor by Muslim prisoners returning to the collective prison or to their cells. Some knew me, having seen me at demonstrations organized by the…
