Showing posts with label torture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label torture. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

2/10 Film screening - Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, and Disappearances in the ‘War on Terror’

OUTLAWED:

Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, and Disappearances in the ‘War on Terror’

Join other concerned students and citizens for a film screening, discussion, and advocacy campaign.

Refreshments provided.

Saturday, February 10, 3-5 PM

CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5414

The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309

Outlawed tells the stories of Khaled El-Masri and Binyam Mohamed, two men who have survived torture by the U.S. government working with various other governments wo rldwide. It features relevant commentary from Louise Arbour, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, U.S. President George W. Bush, Michael Scheuer, the chief architect of the rendition program and former head of the Osama Bin Laden unit at the CIA, and Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. Secretary of State.

This event is organized by the Americans for Informed Democracy Chapter at CUNY Grad Center and supported thanks to a generous grant from the JEHT Foundation. The film is produced by Witness.