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UN TORTURE AWARENESS MONTH NEWSLETTER #3, JUNE 1, 2015.
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2015/06/un-torture-awareness-month-newsletter-3.html
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace and Justice.
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laws prohibit torture, yet it continues.
As part of the international movement for a more ethical world, OMNI is
committed to protest torture wherever it occurs. Hardly any other cruelty committed with
impunity more undermines global morality.
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Contents of UN Torture Awareness Month, #3, June 2015
Torture USA
2015:
Guantanamo, CIA, Chicago Police, Google Search 2015
Majid Khan
US Senate Select Intelligence Committee on
Torture 2014, Google Search
2015
2015
Opposing
Torture:
UN Torture Awareness Month 2015, Google
Search
National Religious Campaign Against Torture
(NRCAT) 2014
June 26, International Day in Support of
Victims of Torture
Amnesty International
Center for Victims of Torture
Tomgram, Ariel Dorfman, Torture and
Forgiveness
OMNI Actions Against Torture 2013
Contact
President Obama
Contents of
Torture Awareness Month Newsletter, Nos. 1 & 2, 2012, 2013
TORTURE USA 2015, Google Search June
4, 2015, Page One
In the news
1.
Exclusive: Detainee alleges CIA sexual abuse, torture
beyond Senate findings Reuters - 2 days ago
NEW YORK The U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency used a wider array of sexual abuse and other forms of torture than was disclosed
in a Senate ...
Apr 30, 2015 - American Psychological
Association Bolstered C.I.A. Torture Program, Report Says. By JAMES ... Anatomy of an
Interrogation APRIL 19, 2015.
www.theguardian.com
› US News › Chicago The
Guardian
May 6, 2015 - Historic deal will see
reparations paid to those tortured by police commander ... Wednesday 6 May 2015 13.38 EDT Last
modified on Wednesday 6 May ... be paid out to living survivors, in the first
gesture of its kind in America.
www.witnesstorture.org/
May 19, 2015; Witness Against Torture and HOOD share the
Ally Award from CCR May 7, 2015; May Newsletter: Protest outside U.S. Embassy, Take
Action, ...
america.aljazeera.com/.../2015/.../guantanamo-diaryataleofame..Al
Jazeera
January 20, 2015 9:07AM ET. by Jenifer Fenton. President Barack Obama
admitted in August that “we tortured some folks.” Now one of those folks has ...
america.aljazeera.com/.../america.../2015/.../will-the-us-prosec...Al
Jazeera
Despite a Senate committee
report that detailed some of the CIA's use of torture, nobody has been
prosecuted. February 20, 2015 5:30PM ET. by Bryan Myers ...
www.slate.com/.../2015/.../new_amnesty_report_criticizes_obama_h...Slate
April 21 2015 12:18 PM ... used by
several Latin American countries to address crimes, including torture, committed under
authoritarian governments.
www.slate.com/.../2015/.../american_psychological_association_cia_...Slate
Slate · The Slatest · The
Slatest. Your News Companion. May 1 2015 2:53 PM. Emails Reveal American Psychological
Association's Role in CIA Torture ...
www.commondreams.org/.../2015/.../us-ac...Common
Dreams NewsCenter
With US Accountability MIA,
Poland to Make Payout for Torture of CIA. Published on. Friday, May 15, 2015. by. Common
Dreams ...
www.newsweek.com/2015/.../usa-develops-new-soft-techniques-end-tort...
By Alev Scott / January
30, 2015 7:56 AM EST ...
Public debate over the United States's use of torture was recently stoked by the Senate Intelligence
Committee's ...
"These are War Crimes":
Shocking Details Emerge of U.S. Resident Majid Khan's Torture by CIA. Amy Goodman, Democracy
Now, June
4, 2015.
Shocking
new details have emerged about how the CIA tortured a former resident of
Baltimore, Maryland, who has been in U.S. detention since 2003, first at a CIA
black site, ... Read More
The Senate Intelligence Committee's Report on
CIA Torture
www.intelligence.s...
United
States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Detention and Interrogation Program, it was a
struggle for the Committee toget the ... access to over 100 specific documents
cited in the Inspector General report, ...
Dec 11, 2014 - Fact Check: Intelligence Committee Did Not
Spend $40 Million on CIA Study ... Los Angeles Times: Dianne Feinstein defends
the torture
report ·
San Francisco Chronicle: Torture report is about us, not enemies, and we must ...
www.theguardian.com
› US News › CIA torture report The Guardian
Dec 9, 2014 - The Senate intelligence committee's report on CIA torture – read the ...
CIA torture
report sparks
renewed calls to prosecute senior US officials.
en.wikipedia.org/.../Senate_Intelligence_Committee_report_on...
Wikipedia
The U.S. Senate Report on CIA
Detention Interrogation Program that details the use ... The Committee Study of
the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and ...
Dec 9, 2014 - The report says the agency
routinely misled the White House and Congress ... More coverage: 7 Key Points
From the C.I.A. Torture Report ...
Dec 9, 2014 - WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday
issued a sweeping ... C.I.A.'s Response to the Senate Torture Report DEC. ... She said,
“History will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by ...
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.co... Bureau of Investigative
Journalism
Feb 13, 2015 - The US Senate Committee on Intelligence has issued a
significant correction to an appendix to its report on CIA torture after mistakes
were ...
Dec 9, 2014 - An exhaustive report by the Senate Intelligence Committee found the
CIA tortured suspected terrorists
in a brutal and mismanaged program ...
The report was produced by
the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence and describes
horrific human rights abuses by the CIA. It also chronicles the
agency's ...
www.hrw.org/.../us-senate-report-slams-cia-torture-... Human Rights Watch
Dec 10, 2014 - (Washington, DC) –
The US
Senate Intelligence Committee's reportsummary on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
detention and ...
Searches
related to US Senate Intelligence Torture Report
OPPOSING TORTURE
UN TORTURE AWARENESS MONTH 2015, Google Search
June 4, 2015, page one
www.nrcat.org/torture-awa...
National Religious Campaign
Against Torture
Torture Awareness Month 2015 Every June, human rights and faith ...
force and theUnited
Nations later
declared June 26th the “International Day in Support of ...
www.ucc.org/torture_awareness_month
May 27, 2015 - This June, as we commemorate Torture Awareness Month, we mark the 28th
anniversary of the United Nations' Convention Against Torture and honor the leadership of
survivors of torture. ... June 01, 2015 at 8am - 8am.
spsmw.org/2015/06/02/comments-on-torture-awareness-month/
Posted June 2, 2015 at 5:30 am by Sister Donna Butler No comments · candles.
June is recognized as Torture Awareness Month. ... and the United Nations later declared June 26 as the “International Day in
Support of Victims of Torture.”.
umc-gbcs.org › Faith in Action
General Board of Church and
Society
May 22, 2014 - Consequently, the United Nations later declared June 26 the “International Day ... NRCAT
would like to put your Torture Awareness Month plans on the map. .... May 01, 2015; June 3 National Call-In
Day to oppose Fast Track
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Holidays
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human torture; and television
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Putting an end to torture in all its manifestations will require
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www.nysec.org/platform-6-7-15
Sunday Meeting - June Is Torture Awareness Month" with Shahram
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religiousliberty.tv/june-is-national-torture-awareness-month.html
Apr 16, 2012 - June is National Torture Awareness Month ... DC, on Sunday afternoon, June 24, and local vigils on
Tuesday, June 26, which is the UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims. ...
January 18, 2015 / 0 comments ...
www.bordc.org/blog/june-torture-awareness-month-0
June is Torture Awareness Month. June 1, 2015 by Sue Udry. The United Nationshas marked June 26th as
the International Day in Support of Survivors and ...
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Exposing the Truth ofU.S. Torture:
Restoring Human Dignity
Exposing the Truth of
Every
June, human rights and faith organizations join together to mark Torture
Awareness Month because on June 26, 1987, the nations of the world took a major
step against the immoral and abhorrent practice of torture. On that day, the
Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or
Punishment (CAT for short) entered into force and the United Nations later
declared June 26th the “International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.”
This June, we will honor
survivors of torture, take action to ensure that the truth of the clandestine U.S. torture
program after 9/11 is made public, and pray for national repentance and healing
toward the restoration of human dignity for all. The National Religious
Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) invites you, and your local church, synagogue,
mosque, temple, or faith community, to join people of faith throughout the
world in commemorating Torture Awareness Month.
We invite you to use our toolkit to assist you and your congregation in
planning educational, advocacy and worship events. Also, check out our activity ideas.
If you would like to discuss additional ways for how your local
congregation or faith community could mark Torture Awareness Month please call
or email Paz Artaza-Regan at 202-547-1920 or partaza-regan@nrcat.org.
We will be delighted to assist you with plans and suggestions.
Also, we would like to put your Torture Awareness Month plans on the map! Let us know what you will be doing and we will add your event to a map on our website, and be able to demonstrate the broad support within the faith community in “Exposing the Truth of U.S. Torture: Restoring Human Dignity”.
Also, we would like to put your Torture Awareness Month plans on the map! Let us know what you will be doing and we will add your event to a map on our website, and be able to demonstrate the broad support within the faith community in “Exposing the Truth of U.S. Torture: Restoring Human Dignity”.
You can also support our on-going anti-torture work with a tax-deductible gift. Thank you for your support.
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JUNE 26, 2014 International Day in Support of
Victims of Torture
Quick Facts
The United Nations’ (UN)
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is annually observed on June
26 to remind people that human torture is not only unacceptable – it is also a
crime.
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 2014
Thursday, June
26, 2014
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Ryan Klos
What do people
do?
Rehabilitation
centers and human rights organizations around the world celebrate the UN’s
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on June 26 each year. The
day serves as a reminder to people that torture is a crime. This event gives
everyone a chance to unite and voice their opinions against human torture.
Organizations,
including the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims and
Amnesty International, have played an active role in organizing events around
the world to promote the day. Activities may include: photo exhibitions; the
distribution of posters and other material to boost people’s awareness of
issues related to human torture; and television advertisements.
Public life
The
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is not a public holiday and
public life is not affected.
Background
On June
26, 1987, the Convention against Torture came into force. It was an important
step in the process of globalizing human rights and acknowledging that torture
and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment should be universally illegal.
In 1997 the United Nations General Assembly decided to mark this historic date
and designated June 26 each year as the International Day in Support of Victims
of Torture.
The first
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture was held on June 26, 1998.
It was a day when the United Nations appealed to all governments and members of
civil society to take action to defeat torture and torturers everywhere. That
same year marked the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, which proclaims that “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.
Symbols
The
United Nations’ logo is often associated with marketing and promotional
material for this event. It features a projection of a world map (less Antarctica ) centered on the North Pole, enclosed by olive
branches. The olive branches are a symbol for peace, and the world map
represents all the people of the world. The logo appears in colors such as
black on a white or light yellow background.
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I’ll
bet you didn’t know that June is “torture awareness month” thanks to the fact
that, on June 26, 1987, the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel,
Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment or Punishment went into effect internationally. In this country,
however, as a recent Amnesty International survey indicated, Americans are essentially
living in Torture Unawareness Month, or perhaps even Torture Approval Month,
and not just in June 2014 but every month of the year. One simple fact of the post-9/11 era should make this clear and also boggle the mind, but has had almost no impact here. But for this you need a little background from the early years of what was once called the Global War on Terror. In addition to a stream of international kidnappings (euphemistically called “renditions”) of terror suspects, including completely innocent people the CIA snatched off the streets of global cities, as well as from the backlands of the planet and “rendered” into the hands of well-known torturing regimes (with the help of 54 other countries) and the setting up of a network of “black sites” or offshore prisons where anything went, the CIA tortured up a storm. And it did so at the behest of the top officials of the Bush administration, including the president and vice president who were convinced that it was time for Washington to “take the gloves off.” In those years, torture techniques were reportedly demonstrated in the White House to some of those officials, including the vice president and national security advisor. At the time, they went by the euphemistic, administration-approved term “enhanced interrogation techniques,” which was quickly picked up and used in the U.S. mainstream media in place of the word “torture” -- though only when the enhanced interrogators were American, of course. The bad guys out there continued to “torture” in the usual fashion. In the Obama years, torture was (at least officially) tossed out as a useful tactic. But the torturers themselves were given a pass, every last one of them, by the Justice Department, even two cases in which the CIA’s acts of enhancement had led to death. No charge was ever brought against anyone, including the Justice Department lawyers who wrote the tortured memos endorsing those techniques and redefining torture as only happening when the torturer meant it to, or the officials who green-lighted them. Think of the Obama administration then as Amnesty National. That administration did, however, have the guts to go after one man connected to the torture program, forced a plea deal from him, andsent him to jail for two years. I’m talking about former CIA agentJohn Kiriakou, the only person since 9/11 convicted of a torture-related crime. To be specific, his criminal act was to blow the whistle on his former employer's torture program to a journalist, revealing in the process the name of a CIA agent. That was considered such an indefensible act -- in effect, an act of torture against the American security state -- that justice, American-style, was done. It’s quite a tortuous record when you think about it, not that anyone here does anymore, which is why we need TomDispatch regularAriel Dorfman, author most recently of Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile, to remind us of what’s really at stake when one human being tortures another. Tom How to Forgive Your Torturer The River Kwai Passes Through Latin America and By Ariel Dorfman What a way to celebrate Torture Awareness Month! According to an Amnesty International Poll released in May, 45% of Americans believe that torture is “sometimes necessary and acceptable” in order to “gain information that may protect the public.” Twenty-nine percent of Britons “strongly or somewhat agreed” that torture was justified when asked the same question. For someone like me, who has been haunted by the daily existence of torture since the September 11, 1973 coup that overthrew Chilean President Salvador Allende, such percentages couldn’t be more depressing, but perhaps not that surprising. I now live, after all, in the America where Dick Cheney, instead of being indicted as a war criminal, sneeringly (and falsely) claims to anyone who asks him -- and he is trotted out over and over again as the resident expert on the subject -- that “enhanced interrogations” have been and still are absolutely necessary to keep Americans safe. Click here to read more of this dispatch. |
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ACTIONS AGAINST TORTURE 2013
PETITION TO PRESIDENT OBAMA VS. ILLEGAL, GLOBALLY ABHORRENT
TORTURE AND KILLING, JUNE 2013
TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
WE SUPPORT YOUR DECISION TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO AND TO CLOSELY DEFINE “TARGETED
KILLINGS.”
Our country
cannot present itself to the world as a guide for others if its policies
include torture and assassination. We
will always appear both brutal and hypocritical. We appeal to you then, to go further and end
torture and unconstitutional killing, end the extra-judicial, immoral practices
you inherited from Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Addington, Yoo, and PNAC. They are unworthy of a great nation. They make us seem to the world a despicable
bully, a small-country dictator, a mere Mafia boss beating up on the less
powerful. And they inspire revenge
against us around the world.
Let us return
to lawful police practices. Let our
security stand not upon illegal torture and killing, but upon our
Constitution. End CIA black sites,
military torture prisons, “extraordinary rendition,” JSOC night raids and
killings, drone assassinations, dumping our murder victims in the ocean. END UNCONSTITUTIONAL, UNPRESIDENTIAL TORTURE
AND KILLING.
CRIME SCENE:
PROTEST U.S./EXECUTIVE TORTURE AND KILLING
SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2013, AT THE FEDERAL BUILDING .
10 A.M. TO 11.
INTERSECTION OF COLLEGE AND MOUNTAIN AND SIDEWALK
SURROUNDING THE BUILDING.
JOIN IN RINGING THE BUILDING ON THE SIDEWALK WITH “CRIME
SCENE” TAPE TO SYMBOLIZE OUR DISAPPROVAL OF OUR GOVERNMENT’S VIOLATIONS OF LAW
AND MORALITY BY UNCONSTITUTIONAL TORTURE AND KILLING.
(OMNI will also sponsor a related film, War on Whistleblowers, on June 26, 7p.m., at OMNI, and a Book Forum on torture and executive
killing July 17, 7p.m., also at OMNI, 3274
Lee Ave. )
On UN International Day in Support of
Victims of Torture, Wednesday, June 26, 7p.m.,
OMNI showed a film by Robert Greenwald entitled War on Whistleblowers.
The film looks at
four whistleblowers who had their lives practically destroyed after they
went to the press with evidence of government wrongdoing. They are Michael
DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayl, and Thomas Tamm. Whistleblowers have come under unprecedented attack by
the Obama administration. Evoking the Espionage Act of 1917, the
administration has pressed criminal charges against no fewer than six
government employees, more than all previous presidential administrations
combined. In the film, Greenwald also interviews government oversight experts
and investigative journalists who warn about the chilling effect prosecutions
may have on potential whistleblowers and the journalists who help them.
James Madison wrote: “a people who mean to be their own Governors
must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
US
War on Terrorism
Wednesday, July 17, 2013, OMNI hosted a Book Forum on ethical, legal, and constitutional
consequences of US Imperialism, wars, and “War on Terrorism,”
specifically state torture and assassination and indigenous police
training. Each panelist reported on a book, with
discussion following.
Dick Bennett,
Introduction
Training and
Using Indigenous Police
Asst. Prof.
Jeremy Kuzmarov, Tulsa
University , author
of Modernizing
Repression:
Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century
Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century
Torture
Bettie Lu Lancaster : Jane Mayer, The Dark Side
Larry
Woodall: Film Taxi to the Dark Side (film is free online)
Carl
Barnwell: Moazzam Begg, Enemy Combatant (innocent victim’s point
of view)
Assassination
John Gray: Medea Benjamin, Drone Warfare
(Another
excellent book is Dirty Wars by
Jeremy Scahill that focuses on special operations, and a film based on the book
has been made.)
July 17 is UN
International Justice Day, celebrating the creation of the International
Criminal Court (ICC).
For more
information contact Dick Bennett, jbennet@uark.edu,
442-4600.
NOTE TO PANELISTS
Six reports
will be frustrating, but remember the purpose is not to evaluate each work but
to invite the audience to buy, read, and urge others. The goal is to expand the informed citizenry
essential to a democracy.
Thanks,
Dick
Prof. Jeremy Kuzmarov, University
of Tulsa, will report on his book on US funding and training police of US
occupied or client nations, entitled Modernizing
Repression: Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century.)
Some of the
books to be surveyed: On TORTURE: Jane Mayer, The Dark Side; Michael Ratner, The
Trial of Donald Rumsfeld; Alfred McCoy, A
Question of Torture and Torture and
Impunity. On ASSASSINATION: Jeremy Scahill, Dirty Wars (also a film); Medea
Benjamin, Drone Warfare. Our special panelist is Asst. Prof.
Jeremy Kuzmarov, Tulsa
University , telling about
his new book, Modernizing Repression. July 17 is UN International Justice Day,
celebrating the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Book Forum Wednesday, July 17, OMNI, 7 p.m.
Jeremy Scahill, Dirty Wars (also a film); Medea
Benjamin, Drone Warfare; Cavallaro, Living Under Drones; Many excellent
books have been published about US leaders’ torture and special
operations/drone (extra-judicial) assassinations programs, numerous articles,
and some films.
Jeremy
Scahill’s Dirty Wars: The
World Is a Battlefield takes us
inside our government’s new covert wars, with orders from the White House to
capture or kill individuals designated
as enemies. The Pentagon’s Joint
Special Operations Command, the CIA’s Special Activities Division, the Navy
SEALs, and other elite commandos operate secretly worldwide, this global
killing machine funded by “black budgets.”
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Contents UN
Torture Awareness Month #1, June 2012
NRCAT 2012
Tassc 2011
Human Rights News
UN Conventions vs. Torture
ACLU
IBJ Legal Training and Resources
NRCAT Against Torture
Presbyterian Church
ACLU Torture Report
Contents #2
2013 Torture Awareness Month, June 2013
Crime Scene Demonstration Saturday June 22, 10
a.m., Torture Awareness Day,
Fayetteville, Saturday, June 22 (for
June 26 UN Day for Victims of Torture)
Torture Awareness Month June 2013
Methodist Church: Torture Awareness
Month June 2013
National Religious Campaign Against
Torture 2013 (NRCAT)
Episcopal Church
Google Search for Torture Awareness Month 2013
Related
Center for Victims of Torture Gitmo Review Urged
Freedom from Torture (UK)
TASSC: Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition
Empathy and Torture, from The Economist
International Criminal Court
Chicago Police
US TORTURE REGIME
Scheer , US Global Rendition/Torture
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