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Video: From Guantánamo Bay to Rikers

Experts and organizers from a wide variety of backgrounds, from anti-torture to prison abolition work, gathered in Washington DC on June 27th, 2015 to discuss how solitary confinement, police torture, surveillance of Muslim communities and CIA torture intersect to create a culture where torture is permitted and legally justified to perpetuate state violence. Panelists included Juan E. Méndez, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture; Dr. Stephen Xenakis, anti-torture advisor to Physicians For Human Rights; Dr. Maha Hilal is the Deputy Executive Director of the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms; El-Hajj Mauri’ Saalakhan is a Metropolitan Washington, DC. Check out the full discussion on video right here.