MCHR Member Launches Campaign to Ban Torture
“No act of war, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification for torture"
On June 25, the eve of International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Center for Victims of Torture, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, and Evangelicals for Human Rights, launched the Campaign to Ban Torture: American Voices for American Values.
CVT Director's Letter to "Wall Street Journal"
The Wall Street Journal (November 7, 2007) ran an Op-Ed by Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz regarding the Democrats apparent soft stance on torture. The Executive Director of the Center for Victims of Torture, Douglas A. Johnson, wrote a response to Mr. Dershowitz editorial and it was printed in the November 12th issue of the WSJ. The text of his letter can be found below:
Alan Dershowitz, while passionately promoting the use of torture, consistently fails to acknowledge how torture really works in the world. His argument is based on a dramatic but purely hypothetical law school exercise.