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In This Issue: No. 6: September 2005
•   Anti-torture activists march on Washington
•   "The time has come...to clean house"
•   Watch UUSC’s formal mock trial online
•   U.S.-sponsored torture, from Guatemala to Abu Ghraib
•   New accounts of torture by U.S. troops
Anti-torture activists march on Washington
Hundreds of activists traveled to Washington, D.C., from around the country September 24-26 to hear stories from torture survivors, attend a mock trial of high-level U.S. officials, and visit policymakers on Capitol Hill.

Read the full account of the Call for Justice Weekend.

Watch UUSC’s formal mock trial online
If you were unable to attend the formal mock trial of high-level U.S. officials, you can view it in its entirety or in parts via streaming video on our website.

Watch the Mock Trial online now.

New accounts of torture by U.S. troops
U.S. Army troops subjected Iraqi detainees to severe beatings and other acts of torture, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.

Read "Soldiers Say Failures by Command Led to Abuses."

"The time has come...to clean house"
The torture practices being used by U.S. agents or proxies in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo are the same as those used throughout Latin America in the 1980s and 90s and even during the Vietnam War, says Jennifer Harbury, director of UUSC’s STOP (Stop Torture Permanently) Campaign.

Read Harbury’s op-ed in Newsday.

U.S.-sponsored torture, from Guatemala to Abu Ghraib
In a feature story in the Boston Globe, UUSC’s STOP Campaign Director Jennifer Harbury describes the long and shadowy history of U.S. involvement in torture.

See "She wants it to stop."