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International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
June 26 marks the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The spotlight has been shining for months on U.S. government torture of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay detention facilities, and these abuses will likely be a major focus of attention on June 26. But the U.S. Human Rights Network and its 255 member organizations have long argued that torture does not begin and end outside U.S. borders, and we urge that local, state and federal governments take immediate steps to stop the domestic physical and mental abuses that contravene international anti-torture law. "Examples of torture in the U.S. have been documented by U.S. organizations and verified by the U.N. for more than a decade," says Network Executive Director Ajamu Baraka. "It is high time for these practices to be abolished."
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