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Anti-Torture Activists Arrested At White House
Friday, 13 January 2012, 10:33 am | Witness Against Torture
Almost Forty Anti-Torture Activists Arrested At White House Message To Obama: No Guantanamo, No Bagram, No NDAA!! More >>
Call for shut down of Guantanamo Bay
Thursday, 12 January 2012, 11:39 am | Witness Against Torture
Broad Coalition Opposes NDAA and Calls on President Obama to Keep His Promise and Shut Guantanamo Bay Now --- Groups will mark 10th anniversary of first detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay with rally, human chain starting at White House; military, ... More >>
Trial Ends For 14 Anti-Torture Activists
Friday, 6 January 2012, 11:50 am | Witness Against Torture
1 Acquitted, 3 Found Guilty By A Jury, Charges Dropped Against 9 Jury Continues To Deliberate On One Case Sentencing Statements Tomorrow Three members of Witness Against Torture were found guilty in a jury trial at D.C. Superior Court on January ... More >>
Anti-Torture Activists To “Occupy” Washington, Jan. 2-12
Wednesday, 28 December 2011, 8:50 pm | Witness Against Torture
Anti-Torture Activists To “Occupy” Washington, Jan. 2-12 Marking 10th Anniversary Of Guantanamo, Events To Include 10-Day Fast, Courtroom Support For Activists Who Spoke Out In Congress, And A Human Chain From The White House To Congress More >>
Close Guantánamo with Justice Now!
Thursday, 23 June 2011, 1:58 pm | Witness Against Torture
On Thursday, June 23rd, members of Witness Against Torture, the Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition (TASSC), Amnesty International and other groups will embark on a March of Shame, walking between the institutions in Washington DC that ... More >>
Guantanamo files reveal corrupt system of detention - WAT
Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 11:54 am | Witness Against Torture
Hundreds of classified "Joint Task Force" documents confirm what critics of the detention camp at Guantanamo have long maintained: that men are detained there based on a patchwork of insinuations, Orwellian double-think, and pseudo-evidence contaminated by torture ... More >>
DC: Justice Department Blockaded to Stop Torture
Wednesday, 12 January 2011, 1:48 pm | Witness Against Torture
WASHINGTON – Sixty anti-torture activists blockaded the entrances to the Department of Justice for an hour and a half this afternoon. The action was to protest Washington's failure to close the Guantánamo detention center and continued use of torture against ... More >>
Anti-Torture activists to rally at the White House
Saturday, 8 January 2011, 1:05 pm | Witness Against Torture
CLOSE GUANTÁNAMO WITH JUSTICE NOW DAY OF ACTION AGAINST TORTURE, EXTRA-LEGAL DETENTION AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11 Anti-Torture activists to rally at the White House and march to the Justice Department as the prison at ... More >>
No Justice For Victims of US Torture
Saturday, 11 September 2010, 11:44 am | Witness Against Torture
September 10, 2011, New York City — Witness Against Torture, a grassroots organization dedicated to closing Guantanamo and ending US torture, condemns the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Mohamed, et. al. versus Jeppesen DataPlan, ... More >>
42 Arrested At U.S. Capitol In Day Of Action
Friday, 22 January 2010, 10:37 am | Witness Against Torture
In a dramatic protest, 42 activists with Witness Against Torture were arrested this afternoon at the U.S. Capitol. The protest comes on the eve of the since-voided deadline President Obama had set for closing the prison camp at Guantanamo. More >>
Murder And CIA Black Sites At Guantanamo?
Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 9:49 am | Witness Against Torture
Witness Against Torture Responds to New Revelations with Vigils at the Pentagon and White House; Demands a Full Investigation and Accountability from the Obama Administration More >>
Human Rights Activists, Guantanamo Lawyers Rally
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 9:47 am | Witness Against Torture
Today, activists and Guantanamo lawyers mark the anniversary by demanding that President Obama make good on his pledge to close the prison as first step towards restoring the rule of law. More >>
Close Guantanamo And Ban Torture Immediately
Friday, 9 January 2009, 10:18 am | Witness Against Torture
WASHINGTON — On Sunday, January 11 — the seven-year anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantanamo — more than 200 human rights advocates will join 60 people who are beginning a nine-day fast to encourage President-Elect Barack Obama ... More >>
Supreme Court Upholds Rights Of Detainees
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 1:16 pm | Witness Against Torture
With yesterday's Supreme Court's decision, there is now an unequivocal mandate from the highest judicial body in the United Sates to close the detention center at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and bring cases of the detainees into the Federal ... More >>
Witness Against Torture Responds to President Bush
Tuesday, 9 May 2006, 9:24 am | Witness Against Torture
Witness Against Torture: A Campaign to Shut Down Guantánamo responds to President George Bush's statements on German television last week about the U.S. prison. According to a transcript of the program released on Sunday, President Bush acknowledged the ... More >>
15 Arrested at White House in Anti-Torture Protest
Friday, 3 March 2006, 11:22 am | Witness Against Torture
Today a group of 75 people from Witness Against Torture (the group that marched to Guantanamo in December) continued their protest against the U.S. government's practice of torture and indefinite detention with a march from the Supreme Court to the Capitol, ... More >>
U.S. Charges Christians that Marched to Guantánamo
Wednesday, 8 February 2006, 1:43 pm | Witness Against Torture
Seven individuals from Witness Against Torture, a group protesting the denial of rights to prisoners at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were served papers by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) last week. The ... More >>
