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Torture: How to Stop It

Torture: How to Stop It

Sunday, September 24, 1-3pm
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 526 W. 126th St.
(between Amsterdam and Old Broadway, closest to 125th stop on the 1 subway)

Panel discussion

Jennifer Harbury, human rights lawyer, author of "Truth, Torture And The American Way," widow of assassinated Guatemalan resistance leader
Rev. George Hunsinger, Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and founding organizer of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture

Matthew Kennis, Field Organizer, Amnesty International

Member of Witness Against Torture, a group of twenty four friends, who walked to Guantánamo, in December 2005, to visit the prisoners

Moderated by
Ibrahim Ramey, Director of Civil and Human Rights, Muslim American Society

For more information, call (212) 864-4013

Sponsored by: New York Religious Campaign Against Torture

Co-sponsored by: Peace Education Center and Peace Action NYS

Posted by Evelin at September 19, 2006 08:22 PM
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