Legalized Torture: From Guantánamo Bay to Rikers

Date 

Add to My Calendar Tuesday, June 23, 2015 6:00pm

Location 

2111 Florida Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20008

Since 9/11, the United States has moved to legalize many policies that sanction and protect state violence, including in prisons from Guantánamo to Bagram. Using the context of the so-called "War on Terror" to understand current manifestations of state violence in the United States, this panel will examine the intersections between state violence, Islamophobia, racism and xenophobia, and the ways in which the U.S. government has and continues to use state violence as a method of control and containment.

Participants include Dr. Stephen Xenakis (anti-torture advisor to Physicians For Human Rights), Dr. Maha Hilal ((Deputy Executive Director of the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms), El-Hajj Mauri’ Saalakhan (Founder and Director of Operations, The Peace and Justice Foundation), Juan Méndez (UN Special Rapporteur on Torture), and Darakshan Raja (Washington Peace Center).

Please join CCR and allies Amnesty International USA Mid-Atlantic Region, National Coalition To Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF), Witness Against Torture and CODEPINK: Women For Peace, for this important conversation. The event is FREE and open to the public. For more information, visit this Facebook event page.

June is Torture Awareness month. Learn more about CCR’s long history of anti-torture work by visiting our Guantanamo, Mass Incarceration, Torture, War Crimes, & Militarism issue pages.

Last modified 

June 24, 2015