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Please Tweet for Torture Awareness

Allie Bohm,
Policy Counsel,
NYCLU
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June 25, 2012

June: best known for school ending, kids鈥 going to camp, longer days, and increasing temperatures. Also known for being Torture Awareness Month. And, tomorrow, June 26, is (as declared by the U.N. in 1997).

We at the 老澳门开奖结果 promote torture awareness all year long, but tomorrow, we鈥檙e joining the , Amnesty International, Witness Against Torture, the , and many other groups in a Tweet-in Day Against Torture. We鈥檒l be tweeting and using the hashtags #June26, #NoTorture, #StopTorture, #Torture, #Guantanamo, and #NDAA, and we hope you will tomorrow as well.

The Tweet-in Day is the perfect opportunity to remind Congress once again to fix the problems created by last year鈥檚 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by repealing the mandatory military detention requirement and banning indefinite detention.

It鈥檚 also a great time to tell Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) to publicly their . Feinstein has already indicated the importance of the investigation鈥檚 findings. In December, she stated 鈥淚 can assure the Senate and the Nation that coercive and abusive treatment of detainees in U.S. custody was far more systematic and widespread than we thought,鈥 and in April she issued a statement with Sen. Carl Levin asserting that the committee鈥檚 final report 鈥渨ill provide a detailed, factual description of how interrogation techniques were used, the conditions under which detainees were held, and the intelligence that was 鈥 or wasn鈥檛 鈥 gained from the program.鈥 Those findings should not collect dust on a congressional shelf. We should know the extent of abuses authorized by our government and how those abuses affected our security.

We鈥檝e included a couple of sample tweets below, and we encourage you to make up your own (and re-tweet ) as well:

.@SenFeinstein Please publicly release SSCI #Torture Report. The public has the right to know about abuse in our name.

路 Tell Congress to repeal mandatory military detention, ban #indefinitedetention & fix #NDAA www.aclu.org/fixNDAA #June26

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