Dear Friends, Greetings from Washington, DC and Day Seven of the Fast for Justice. We are 40 or so in Washington, DC and over 100 throughout the country. In this brief note, we hope to share with you some sense of what our days have been like as...
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UN Special Rapporteur Juan Mendez with TASSC Executive Director Demissie Abebe It was TASSC International’s honor to host the newly elected United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture on Thursday, January 13, 2011. Dr. Juan Mendez was welcomed with a luncheon followed by an opportunity to address survivors from TASSC, as well as...
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Press releases 11-01-2011 Today, nine years on from the opening of the United States detention facility at Guantanamo, the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) condemned US authorities for their failure to close the camp and to bring to account those who designed and carried out torture there. Since the first prisoners arrived...
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CALL TO ACTION: Join Witness Against Torture January 11-22, 2010 in a Fast and Vigil to Shut Down Guantanamo, End Torture and Build Justice “I believe strongly that torture is not moral, legal or effective.” Guantanamo is “a damaging symbol to the world… a rallying cry for terrorist recruitment and harmful to our national...
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By Scott Wright TASSC Event Coordinator For the 12th consecutive year, the Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition (TASSC International) gathered in the halls of Congress and the streets of Washington DC to call out to the U.S. government and governments of the world: “Torture Never Again!” the theme of this year’s gathering....
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