Princeton researcher on 903 days of torture and incompetent interrogators in Baghdad
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Princeton doctoral student, was kidnapped from a Baghdad cafe in March 2023 by Kata’ib Hezbollah and held for 903 days. She was released in September 2025. Now she’s written about the experience for The Atlantic, and her observations about her captors’ interrogation methods are striking.
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