Investigate Torture: Online Resources

The following is a list of articles, fliers and other online resources about human-rights abuse and prisoners' torture. This list is in no particular order. If you come across any good online resource in this regard, please email us at Iraq@forusa.org so that we can add a link to this page. The views and opinions expressed in these articles and fliers are those of the authors only. The Fellowship of Reconciliation does not necessarily support all views and analyses of the authors.

Articles

• Prisoner abuse: ethics, morals and religion , An Excellent list of online sources about Torture and Prisoner abuse in Iraq
• On the Necessity of Torture, an article by Mark Engler about how the U.S. Officials justify the use of torture.
• Torture and Accountability by Elizabeth Holtzman, Nation July 18, 2005

• STOP Campaign Reference Materials: A comprehensive list of books, articles, Videos and legal documents on torture, created by UUSC Stop the Torture Campaign

• US acknowledges torture at Guantanamo and Iraq, Afghanistan: AP News Story

• Outsourcing Torture: The secret history of America's "extraordinary rendition" program. By Jane Mayer, The New Yorker

• Gen Ricardo Sanchez Orders Torture in Iraq: His Memo

• US Torture Center in Mosul Revealed: The Independent UK, Sunday 27 March 2005

• CIA Torture Flights: Newsweek, 28 February 2005 Issue

• CIA Torture Flights Authorized by Executive Order, The Washington Post ,Monday 27 December 2004

• Fresh Details Emerge on Harsh Methods at Guantánamo ,The New York Times ,Saturday 01 January 2005

• Inquiry Finds Abuses at Guantánamo Bay ,The New York Times , Sunday 01 May 2005
• CIA Torture Might Have Broken Law, Says Goss, The New York Times , Friday 18 March 2005
• CIA Takes Prisoners to Country Condemned for Torture ,The New York Times , Sunday 01 May 2005
• Army Report: Gen. Sanchez Approved Torture at Abu Ghraib, The New York Times , Friday 27 August 2004
• Report: Egypt Conducting Torture for US, SBS TV (Australia) ,Wednesday 11 May 2005 Guantánamo before Congress (PDF Format)
• Center for Constitutional Rights' Publications on Terrorism, War in Iraq and Civil Right
• CIA contractor faces charges in Afghanistan prison death , CNN, Tuesday, June 22, 2004
• Pentagon vs. prisoners: The Boston Globe Editorial about the supreme Court's Decision on detainees at Guantánamo
• Full Background on Rasul v. Bush, the Case of the Guantanamo Detainees
  Fliers and Fact sheets
  
• Stop Torture in Guantanamo, in Iraq, and Around the World leaflet. By United For Peace and Justice: You can download fliers about torture in English and Spanish (the fliers are in PDF format)
• Stop Campaign: A flier on Universalist Unitarian Service Committee's Campaign to Stop the Torture: (PDF Format)

• Center for Constitutional Rights' Tipton Report: Released Detainees from Guantanamo , 150 Page Report on Abuses (PDF format)

• Guantánamo, What the World Should Know : A book by CCR President Michael Ratner and Journalist Ellen Ray on the Bush Administration's Attempts to Create a Law-Free Zone

• Amnesty International's Read the facts: Stop torture and ill-treatment in the “war on terror”

• Frequently Asked Questions about Torture: The Universalist Unitarian service Committee (UUSC) has compiled a series of Q&A's regarding torture and abuse in prisons

• Torture and ill-treatment: the arguments: Amnesty International's Q&A on Torture

• Amnesty International’s 12-Point Program for the Prevention of Torture

• Combating torture: a manual for action, By Amnesty Internationa

• Witness to Abuse: Human Rights Abuses under the Material Witness Law since September 11, A report by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union
  
  

  Statements, Letters and Talking Points
  
  
• Sample Letter to the Editor: Developed by UUSC's Stop the Torture Campaign
• Talking points for telephone call-in campaign, another resource developed by UUSC
• Investigate Rumsfeld, Tenet for Torture, Human Rights Watch
• Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees , Human Rights Watch
• U.S.: Abu Ghraib Only the “Tip of the Iceberg”, Human Rights Watch
• Religious Humiliation of Muslim Detainees Widespread, Human Rights Watch
• Guantánamo: Give U.N. Monitors Access to Detainees, Human Rights Watch
• Interfaith Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee, Rabbis for Human Rights — North America
• A Jewish Statement Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment of Detainees Under United States Control, Rabbis for Human Rights — North America
• The Use of Torture or Lesse Forms of Coercion to Obtain Information from Prisoners, Resolution passed in March 2005 by the Central Conference of American Rabbis

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