Please join a great effort by Reject Torture to include planks in the Republican and Democratic party platforms. You can help by calling each candidate (helpful talking points) and joining their broad coalition of people opposed to torture.
Read more about the launch via Scott Horton’s blog at Harper’s.
“No Torture. No Exceptions.” means:
- reaffirming America’s commitment to existing federal laws and international treaties that ban torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment under all circumstances.
- renouncing all legal interpretations and executive orders that redefine torture and permit such acts as sensory and sleep deprivation, stress positions, sexual humiliation, and mock executions.
- enforcing full transparency of information about how America treats any and all detainees held by our personnel and those in our employ anywhere in the world.
- rejecting and abolishing the practice of rendering detainees abroad.
- establishing a single standard of interrogation procedures to apply to all persons held in U.S. custody or by those under U.S. control, whether C.I.A., military, or civilian.
- treating our detainees as we would have others treat detained Americans.
Stand up and speak out to ban torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.