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The anti-torture campaign was launched in June with a quarter-page advertisement on the op-ed page of The New York Times, at a time when our nation and the world was witnessing the shocking abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. UUSC began an aggressive program of education and advocacy that includes several action alerts to enable activists to advocate with U.S. policy-makers. See Tell Congress to reject anti-terror legislation that permits torture. Ms. Harbury is a prominent human rights activist whose husband, Everardo, a Mayan resistance leader, was secretly imprisoned for two years, tortured and murdered by the Guatemalan military during the early 1990s. Her investigation into his death led to official disclosures that he had been killed by Guatemala intelligence officials on the CIA payroll as paid informants or “assets.” In an interview, Ms. Harbury talks about the importance of putting an end to U.S.-sanctioned torture. See New STOP director talks about putting an end to torture. |
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Jennifer
Harbury, director of UUSC's STOP (Stop Torture Permanently) Campaign, is a
human rights lawyer and anti-torture activist who has witnessed firsthand
the personal and political consequences of torture. She has written a book
to be published this winter detailing the extent of United States
involvement in torture – especially torture that is either authorized or
condoned by the CIA – from the Central American civil wars of the 1980s to
the current war in Iraq.
