NPR (sorry on link) this morning reports the prosecution in the Saddam Hussein trial presented a witness who had been tortured in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. A woman who did not wish to have her name revealed (understandably) testified about the torture and abuse she was subjected to at Abu Ghraib.
This is exactly the sort of crime for which leaders of countries should be held accountable. The worse the crime the higher up the chain of command responsibility should rise. Repeated torture should go right to the top. And not just leaders of "respectable democratic" countries should be held accountable, but all countries, everywhere, at all times.
Not just countries where a majority have elected the leader, but also where elections have been stolen, money has been stolen, bribes have been taken, corruption is pervasive in the legislature, wars of agression launched to expropriate resource wealth and enrich cronies. The leaders of those countries as well need their feet held to the fire, so to speak.
At the end of the cross examination the witness was gently asked: "Were there dogs? No. Were you photographed? No." The defense rested. And another regime was being held to account.