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School of the Americas Watch
Witness Against Torture
Act Against Torture
Jonah House
Center for Constitutional Rights
Amnesty International--Guantanamo Bay
Cage Prisoners
The Nuclear Resister
Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International
The National Religious Campaign against Torture (NRCAT)
Vandenberg Witness
Southwest Weekend of Witness
Pace e Bene
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TASSC campaign to repeal the Military Comissions Act
RESOURCES TO LEARN MORE ABOUT TORTURE
Radio Free Silver an interview with torture survivor Carlos Mauricio, recorded during the Festival of Hope in Tucson on Feb. 4, 2008
"Fort Huachuca Intelligence Center Draws Private Contractors" by Mike Sunnucks, Business Journal of Phoenix (November 7, 2007)
U.S. Department of Justice (Bybee) Torture Memo--August 1, 2002. Memorandum from Jay S. Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, to Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President, Re: Standards of Conduct for Interrogation under 18 U.S.C. ยงยง 2340-2340A (Aug. 1, 2002),
Abuse and Torture of Prisoners--Chapter from "War and Occupation in Iraq"--A New NGO Report (June 2007)
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Abuse and Torture of Prisoners chapter
ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY "The General's Report" by Seymour M. Hersh The New Yorker June 25, 2007
The Torture Question: Laying the Groundwork A PBS Frontline Special
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"Does Practice Make Perfect" by Rebecca Gordon, ethics teacher at the University of San Francisco
"Torture Comes Out" by Rebecca Gordon, ethics teacher at the University of San Francisco
Oath Betrayed: Torture and the War on Terror, by Stephen Miles, M.D., University of Minnesota Medical School. Miles reviewed thousands of pages obtained by the ACLU through the FOIA that pertain to death certificates and medical records of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and other prisons, as well as interviews and other related documents.
The Center for Victims of Torture provides therapy for refugees who have been tortured in their homelands. It also advocates for the abolition of torture.
Democracy Now, 6/25/07 features "The CIA's Torture Teachers: Psychologists Helped the CIA Exploit a Secret Military Program to Develop Brutal Interrogation Tactics" and "Sister Dianna Ortiz and Torture Survivors Hold 24-Hour Vigil Outside White House"
SOA Manuals Index (on the SOA Watch Website)
On September 20, 1996, under intense public pressure, the Pentagon was forced to release training manuals that were used at the School of the Americas for years. These manuals advocated torture, extortion, blackmail and the targeting of civilian populations.
ACLU Obtains New Details of Possible "Cover-Up" of Iraqi Prisoner Abuse (8/15/2007)
BROKEN CHAINS: Deaths in U.S. Custody in the Global "War on Terrorism" Human Rights First Report