Media Advisory-Public Action Against Torture, Sending Message to Sen. Chambliss

[Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص]

***Public Action Against Torture, Noon EDT

TUESDAY, June 26***

 

Georgians to Send Message to Senator Chambliss on International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

 

 

CONTACT:

Azadeh Shahshahani, ACLU Foundation of Georgia, [phone], [e-mail]

Zeke Johnson, Amnesty International USA, 646-853-9779, [e-mail]

Kevin Moran, NRCAT, [phone], [e-mail]

 

ATLANTA – On the occasion of International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the ACLU Foundation of Georgia, Amnesty International USA-Southern Region, International Action Center, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT), and the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition will join with people of conscience from around the world in taking action against torture and for human rights.  The groups will hold a public action with petitioning and videotaping fellow Georgians sending a message to Senator Chambliss that torture is always wrong.

 

In 2009, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) announced a review of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program.  The report is expected to be completed this summer, but pressure from pro-torture politicians and pundits to stop its release is growing.  The public and survivors of torture have a right to know the truth about the U.S. government’s involvement in torture and its cruel treatment of detainees.  Senator Chambliss is the ranking Republican on the SSCI and repeatedly has acted and spoken in favor of torture.

 

Through the public action Tuesday, Georgians will let Senator Chambliss know that they oppose torture and that the public needs to see the report.

 

WHAT: Public action against torture to urge Senator Chambliss to facilitate release of the SSCI report on CIA torture  

 

WHO: ACLU Foundation of Georgia, Amnesty International USA-Southern Region, International Action Center, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT), the Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition, and Georgians of conscience

 

WHEN: International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Tuesday, June 26, Noon EDT

 

WHERE: Troy Davis/Woodruff Park, intersection of Auburn and Peachtree

 

 

 

Azadeh N. Shahshahani

National Security/Immigrants' Rights Project Director

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Georgia

1900 The Exchange SE, Suite 425

Atlanta, GA 30339

770-303-8111

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