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Day in Support of Victims of Torture NEWSLETTER #2– JUNE 26, 2015 . Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace
and Justice.
(#1, June 26,
2013).
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Contents #2, June 26, 2015
Human Rights First
International Day in Support of Victims of
Torture, Google Search,
June 27
June 27
President Obama and Torture, Google Search, June
27
Physicians for Human Rights and Torture, Google
Search
Human Rights Watch and Torture, Google Search
Center for Victims of Torture
Torture and US Mainstream Media, Google Search
Senator Bernie Sanders and Torture (and Hillary
Clinton), Google Search
Contact President Obama
International Day in Support of
Victims of Torture, 26 June, 2015, Google Search, June 27
The U.S. government should lead
again on torture.
After 9-11, the U.S government
embraced the use of torture, renouncing its global leadership role on this
issue. Thanks in part to the work we did in partnership with military leaders
and interrogation and intelligence professionals, President Obama signed
an executive order banning torture. In time, the landmark Senate Intelligence
Committee torture report was released, documenting a program that was far more
brutal and widespread than Americans were led to believe. We're urging the
Obama Administration and Congress to introduce legislation to make loophole
lawyering impossible and ensure that our country never tortures again.
RELATED CAMPAIGNS & TOPICS
Congress
Should Pass a New Legislative Ban on Torture, Close
Guantanamo, Bahrain, Guantanamo, Retired
Military Leaders
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June 26 is recognized
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UN Convention Against ...
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PRESIDENT
OBAMA AND TORTURE,
Google
Search, June 27, 2015
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-torture-hands-arent-entirely-clean
Dec 10, 2014 - President Obama has denounced the
techniques revealed in the Senate's torture report as "brutal." But his
record on the issue is far from ...
www.nbcnews.com/...torture.../president-obama-cias-post...
NBCNews.com
Dec 10, 2014 - CIA intelligence-gathering
techniques detailed in the Senate's torturereport are "contrary to who we
are," President Barack Obama said.
www.theguardian.com
› US News › CIA torture report
The
Guardian
Dec 9, 2014 - Barack Obama at the UN
headquarters in New York. It's a long way away from the heady days of Obama's
2008 campaign pledge to 'set an ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../obama-cia-torture-repo...
The
Huffington Post
Dec 9, 2014 - President Barack Obama said the revelations
bring light to a ... "That is why I unequivocally banned torture when I took office,
because one of ...
www.nytimes.com/.../obama-effectiveness-cia-tortu...
The New
York Times
Dec 10, 2014 - WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday found himself
caught in the middle of a collision between the Central Intelligence
Agency ...
www.nytimes.com/.../president-obama-and-the-con...
The New
York Times
Oct 20, 2014 - President Obama should not consider
any legal loophole that might permit an American official to engage in torture or cruelty, no
matter where ...
Dec 8, 2014 - Soon after President Barack Obama took office, he
publicly endorsed ... Now, some six years later, the White House says the torture report
that's ...
america.aljazeera.com/blogs/.../9/torture-illegal-thennow.html Al Jazeera
Dec 9, 2014 - With today's release of
what is being shorthanded as the “torture report” ... consensus behind President Barack Obama's August admission
(for ...
thehill.com/blogs/.../279073-president-obamas-record-on-torture The Hill
Jan 24, 2013 - As soon as President Obama began his first
term, he issued an executive order that banned the use of torture as an interrogation
technique.
Aug 4, 2014 - When President Obama declared last week
that "we tortured some folks," the headlines focused on the fact that
he spoke relatively plainly ...
Physicians for
Human Rights - Torture, Google Search, June 27, 2015 [This search also produced reports on medical
professionals’ violations of their oaths to do no harm. –Dick]
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for Human Rights
Since its founding in
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devastating consequences of torture on individuals, institutions, ...
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› ... › Torture
Physicians
for Human Rights
Physicians for Human
Rights:
In response to the systematic infliction of psychological and physical torture by US forces, PHR
seeks to restore the US ...
physiciansforhumanrights.org
› ... › Reports Physicians
for Human Rights
Doing Harm: Health
Professionals' Central Role in the CIA Torture Program ... advisor, and Megan Granski,
Bellevue/ NYU Program for Survivors of Torture.
physiciansforhumanrights.org/.../torture-inv...
Physicians
for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights: PHR uses forensic
science to investigate, document, and advocate against torture of US-held
detainees, and through its Asylum ...
physiciansforhumanrights.org
› ... › Reports Physicians
for Human Rights
Aiding Torture: Health Professionals'
Ethics and Human Rights Violations ... Americandoctors and psychologists violated human rights and betrayed the ethical ...
physiciansforhumanrights.org/.../torture/...t...
Physicians
for Human Rights
Dr. Stephen N. Xenakis,
PHR's anti-torture expert, testified at
the Senate Judiciary Committee on Closing Guantanamo: The National Security,
Fiscal, and ...
physiciansforhumanrights.org/.../american-...
Physicians
for Human Rights
Apr 30, 2015 - “This calculated
undermining of professional ethics is unprecedented in the history of U.S.
medical practice and shows how the CIA torture ...
physiciansforhumanrights.org
› ... › Torture
Physicians
for Human Rights
Physicians for Human
Rights:
The Manual on Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or ...
physiciansforhumanrights.org
› About Physicians for Human
Rights
Dr. Ahmed has examined
hundreds of torture survivors from over 60 countries and provided expert
witness testimony on the medical and psychological ...
physiciansforhumanrights.org/
Physicians
for Human Rights
Physicians for Human
Rights:
Using science and medicine to stop human rights ...Torture · Mass Atrocities ·
Stop Rape in War · Persecution of Health Workers.
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June 27, 2015
https://www.hrw.org/topic/torture
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Rights Watch
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“indisputable” evidence of torture for which the highest United States officials bear
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May 13, 2015 - (Hong Kong) – Chinese
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Jun 17, 2015 - Government ministers,
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and Mail
May 13, 2015 - On October 13, they
detained Yu Wensheng, a lawyer with 13 years experience working primarily on
corporate civil conflicts.
www.ohchr.org/...
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the United Nations High Commissioner for H...
(a) Countries that are not
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for Victims of Torture
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TORTURE
AND US MAINSTREAM MEDIA, Google Search June 27
www.juancole.com/2014/12/mainstream-media-torture.html
Juan Cole
Dec 15, 2014 - By Rebecca Gordon |
(Tomdispatch.com —. American Torture — Past, Present, and… Future? Beyond the Senate Torture Report By
Rebecca ...
www.washingtonsblog.com
› General
Dec 12, 2014 - Corruption Is Now
Officially Legal in the U.S., But Must Be Done Right ... The Media Is Focusing On the
WRONG Senate Torture Report ..... no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
– intelligence they received in plenty of time to ...
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› News › News Feature
Indy Week
Nov 26, 2014 - Torture, spying and net
neutrality and more make this year's list. ... When the U.S. funds torturers, the
corporate media bury the story, or worse, ...
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The
Huffington Post
Dec 19, 2014 - [The media's]
justification for this is, "Well, it's not up for us to resolve debates.
... [the fact that] we don't hear from the victims of torture, because to hear .... out
there, but this shows how controlled the main stream media can be.
ian56.blogspot.com/2014/12/why-is-mainstream-media-protecting.html
Dec 12, 2014 - Paul Burney, a United States Army psychiatrist
assigned to interrogations in Guantánamo Bay that summer of 2002, told Army
investigators of ...
www.projectcensored.org/media-whitewash-integral-rol... Project Censored
Mar 2, 2015 - Although both the corporate
and progressive press focused public attention on the Senate Intelligence
Committee's December 2014 report on ...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/mainstream-media...torture.../2552730
Sep 2, 2014 - This week's Mainstream Media Scream features two
MSNBC newsies blaming ... issue and they're going to torture our hostages with
that knowledge. ... So, the U.S. should be inhibited from pursuing information from
terrorists ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1472402553
Dr Vian Bakir -
2013 - Social Science
... sousveillance to break
the torture story in American
mainstream news, it spurred investigative journalism in American mainstream media in the following
months.
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0549632115
Amanda Jean
Davis - 2008
U.S. soldiers,
simultaneously distance the United States from wrongdoing with ... after the Abu Ghraib photographs
were aired in the U.S. mainstream media, ...
BERNIE
SANDERS AND TORTURE, Google Search, June 27, 2015
www.sanders.senate.gov/.../sanders-statement-on-cia-repo...
Bernie Sanders
Dec 9, 2014 - 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today issued the following statement on a Senate
Intelligence ... “The United States must not engage in torture.
Dec 11, 2014 - The differences between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton
on ...Torture. Sanders: “A great nation
must be prepared to acknowledge its errors ...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/members-of...react...torture.../2557160
Dec 9, 2014 - “Not only is torture wrong, but it doesn't work,” Reid also tweeted, expressing
... Bernie
Sanders,
I-Vt., called the findings of the report, "An ugly ...
Dec 11, 2014 - The release of the CIA torture report on Tuesday, detailing brutal ...Bernie Sanders issued a statement
on Tuesday after the torture report was ...
https://grabien.com/story.php?id=18830
Bernie
Sanders: Torture Report Is
'Enormously Disturbing'. 'That's not what America is supposed to be. We're
supposed to be a different kind of country' ...
rt.com › Shows › Watching the
Hawks RT
May 1, 2015 - APA-CIA torture collaboration, Freddie Gray's mysterious death, Bernie Sanders for president,
sexist peer reviews, urn sex toys (E024).
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/where-hillary-clinton-torture
Dec 9, 2014 - The use of torture is back in the spotlight -- where is the presumed ...Bernie Sanders both have spoken out
strongly since the release of the ...
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May 1, 2015 - Report: APA Coordinated with Bush Admin to Enable Torture Program ... Senator Bernie Sanders Announces Bid for
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socialistappeal.org/.../1595-baltimore-bernie-sanders-and-the-brewing-re...
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Bernie Sanders proposed an amendment calling on President Barack Obama to
... CIA Cover Up in Torture Probe: A conflict between the Central
Intelligence ...
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House
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Contents #1 June 26, 2013
OMNI
Film Showing, War Against Whistleblowers
UN
Convention Against Torture
UN
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
June: UN Torture Awareness Month
TASSC:
Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition
Witness
Against Torture
Torture
USA
US
Torture Victims, Google Search
Books
on Torture
Hersh,
Abu Ghraib
Danner,
Torture and the Forever War
Links
to February 4, Torture Abolition Day (unofficial)
Recent
Related OMNI Newsletters
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INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SUPPORT OF VICTIMS OF TORTURE NEWSLETTER #2 JUNE 26, 2015
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