Campaign Against Torture
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News Releases
- The Torture Veto and America’s Image - A Letter to the Editor of The New York Times
March 11, 2008 - PHR Condemns Bush's Veto of Torture Prohibition; Calls for Congress to Vote to Override
March 8, 2008 - Congress Passes Measure Banning the CIA's "Enhanced" Interrogation Techniques
February 14, 2008 - PHR Pushes Court to Hold CIA in Contempt for Failure to Disclose Torture Documents; Joins ACLU in Filing Motion
January 16, 2008
Reports on Torture
- Leave No Marks: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and the Risk of Criminality
A report by PHR and Human Rights First demonstrates that "enhanced" interrogation techniques are likely to cause "severe" or "serious" physical and mental harm to detainees.
August 2, 2007 - Break Them Down: Systematic Use of Psychological Torture by U.S. Forces
Break Them Down provides extensive evidence that psychological torture was systematic and central to the interrogation process of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay.
May 1, 2005 - Iraq: Medical Consequences of Interrogation Techniques
US government officials continue to classify certain acts as permissible under the Geneva Conventions.
May 14, 2004
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