From the Archive
Fast for Shaker Aamer, January Save the Date and more.
Dear friends and supporters,
October Newsletter: No Separate Justice Vigil, Prisoners Released, Save the Date
No Separate Justice & Witness Against Torture Speak Out Against Torture, Racism and Islamophobia in Overseas and Domestic Prisons
Thank you for Fasting
Dear Friends—
September Newsletter: Fast for Tariq – Join us in NYC – Save the Date
Dear Friends,
Emergency Call to Fast for Tariq – Sept 18
Video: Tariq Ba Odah in His Own Words
While in Washington, DC for their trials in June, members of Witness Against Torture performed impromptu public readings of letters From Tariq Ba Odah, a man who has been held in Guantánamo for over a decade. WAT member and filmmaker Justin Norman later edited these into a video to bring Tariq’s words to a wider audience on the Internet.
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.
July Newsletter
Dear friends and supporters,
Closing Days of Torture Awareness Week
Reflections by Helen Schietinger
The Iftar Circle – A Reflection
For me, the spirit of this year’s Torture Awareness Week events can be summed up in a vignette from Friday afternoon. Two vigils into the day and feeling the effects of fasting, I was walking with Jerica and Jeremy towards the White House, where we would meet up with our coalition partners who had organized a fast-breaking Iftar meal.
