On October 5, 2005, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the Senate Anti-Torture Amendment offered by Senator McCain by a vote on 90-9. The amendment would create uniform standards for the treatment of detainees, and reaffirm the ban on the use of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Recently, the administration has made attempts to exempt the CIA, include a presidential waiver on such provisions, and offer other harmful revisions.


TAKE ACTION!


Call the Capitol switch board: (202) 224 - 3121 and ask to be connected to one of the following:
• Senator Tad Cochran (Rep – Mississippi): Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee
• Senator Robert Byrd (Democrat – West Virginia): Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee
o Ask them to ensure the McCain amendment is retained as is by the conference committee and to urge the President to sign it into law.
o Urge them to insist on decent treatment for the imprisoned hunger-strikers at Guantánamo Bay.
o Urge Congress to establish a fully independent commission to investigate all allegations of torture and cruel treatment by agents of the U.S. Government around the world.
PLEASE SET ASIDE TIME TO MAKE AT LEAST ONE AND IF POSSIBLE BOTH OF THESE PHONE CALLS.

This ACTION sponsored by The Shalom Center joining with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
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Write to your Representative and Senators and ask them to support and pass the Senate anti-torture amendment "as is."

This week we have an unparallel opportunity to help pass legislation to ban the use of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

Urge Senators and Representatives on the Armed Services and Appropriations committees to support and pass the Senate anti-torture amendment "as is." This amendment would establish uniform guidelines for treatment of detainees and affirm the prohibition on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

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http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=12322

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