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Commonweal
January 31, 2018
... invited to sell my soul for a nice future working with a conservative seminary president, the evening in 1995 in which the Holy Spirit burned out of me any capacity to hate that same president, the days in 2006 when I received hate mail for opposing torture while my daughter lay unconscious in the hospital,Ãâà...
Rappler
January 12, 2018
ANTI-TORTURE. Activists protest the Guantanamo Bay detention camp during a rally in Lafayette Square outside the White House January 11, 2018, in Washington, DC. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP. HONORARY JERSEY. President Rodrigo Duterte and Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez receive jerseysÃâà...
National Catholic Reporter
January 9, 2018
The response to each portion of the litany was, "Torture is a Crime, Close Guantanamo Now!" In an email to NCR, Laffin said approximately 20 people attended the vigil; most wore orange jump suits and black hoods, and held signs and banners opposing torture and calling for the closure of Guantanamo.
Law.com
December 12, 2017
Thank you for sharing! Your article was successfully shared with the contacts you provided. James Cullen. Courtesy photo. James Cullen, a longtime Anderson Kill real estate leader known for his work promoting human rights causes and opposing torture in times of war, died on Friday, Dec. 8, from cancer.
Slate Magazine (blog)
November 22, 2016
During his campaign for president, Donald Trump was unambiguous in his belief that “torture works” and seemed eager to bring back waterboarding and “a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.” His glib rhetoric stood out even among defenders of George W. Bush–era “enhanced interrogation” techniquesÃâà...
Yahoo News
March 25, 2016
Mahmoud Hussein, right, is reunited with his brother Tarek after being imprisoned in Egypt for two years. (Photo: Amnesty International via Tarek Hussein). More. A young man who had been behind bars for more than two years for challenging government-sanctioned torture in Egypt was released on bailÃâà...
teleSUR English
February 5, 2016
Anti-torture activists protest in front of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, Mexico City, June 26, 2015. | Photo: EFE. Previous; Next. Published 6 February 2016. 0. Comments. AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Gmail Share to Google+ Share to Pinterest Share to Email.
RT
January 11, 2015
About 20 protesters made their way onto the property of the former vice president's Virginia home, where they protested the 14th anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Activists from the anti-war group CODEPINK and Witness Against Torture, many of them wearingÃâà...
