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Anti-Torture Activists To "Occupy" Washington
Tuesday, 20 December 2011, 10:37 am | witnesstorture.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. — January 11 will mark the tenth anniversary of the first detainees' arrival at the U.S.-controlled detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. To remember this travesty, Witness Against Torture is planning 10 days of activities in Washington, ... More >>
Activists Visit Tortured Guantánamo Prisoners
Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 11:08 am | witnesstorture.org
New York City — Three Christian activists from Witness Against Torture traveled to Bermuda on Friday, July 16, 2010 to meet with four Uyghur men who were detained in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba for more than seven years. (The Uyghur ethnic group primarily ... More >>
'Shut Down Guantanamo' International Day Of Action
Friday, 11 January 2008, 5:04 pm | witnesstorture.org
January 11, 2008 marks six years of detention without hope of release for nearly 300 men at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo. Human rights advocates will engage in a dramatic action to demand an end to six years of torture and abuse at Guantánamo. More >>
Plight Of Guantanamo Prisoners To Federal Court
Monday, 15 January 2007, 10:12 am | witnesstorture.org
Washington, DC. Activists marked the fifth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo Bay by forcing the names of the prisoners into the Federal court system. Eighty-nine Witness Against Torture (WAT) activists entered the Federal Court and filed Habeas ... More >>
International Action to Shut Down Guantánamo
Monday, 15 January 2007, 10:10 am | witnesstorture.org
Havana, January 10 (RHC)-- Thursday, January 11th, marks five years since the first hooded, shackled men were taken to the U.S. prison at Guantánamo -- located in southeastern Cuba and illegally occupied by the United States. Five years later, more than 400 ... More >>
Groups Demand That Guantanamo Be Shut Down
Thursday, 11 January 2007, 9:03 am | witnesstorture.org
Throughout The World,Groups Demand That Guantanamo Be Shut Down, Cry Out Five Years Of Imprisonment And Torture Must End More >>
Guantanamo: 25 Arrested at US Mission to UN
Tuesday, 27 June 2006, 9:03 pm | witnesstorture.org
Twenty Five Arrested at the US Mission to the United Nations Saying No to Torture, Shut Down Guantanamo Three Activists Arrested With the Names of the Men who Committed Suicide at Guantanamo on June 10, 2006. Undeterred by inclement weather, more than ... More >>
Guantanamo: US Catholics on third day of vigil
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 3:46 pm | witnesstorture.org
Fast outside of US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay as Pope Benedict XV condemns human rights abuses More >>
25 U.S. Christians Reach Base at Guantánamo
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 10:14 am | witnesstorture.org
25 U.S. Christians Reach U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo, Hold Anti-Torture Vigil Outside Gates More >>
U.S. Christians March on Guantanamo
Wednesday, 7 December 2005, 12:01 am | witnesstorture.org
Twenty-five Christians in the nonviolent tradition of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker arrived in Cuba last evening and plan to set out from Santiago today on a solemn fifty-mile march to the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They seek to ... More >>
