Press Releases
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Statement on President Obama's National Defense University Speech
Posted: 05/23/2013
CVT issued a statement in response to President Obama's National Defense University speech on counterterrorism policies, specifically urging the President to support the Senate Intelligence Committee declassifying and releasing its report on CIA torture.
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President Urged to Lead Agency-Wide Response to Senate Report on CIA Torture
Posted: 05/06/2013
CVT and others send a letter to President Obama urging him to coordinate and submit one consolidated Executive Branch response to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program after September 11, 2001.
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Statement on Vice President Biden's Support for Making Public Senate Intelligence Committee’s Report on CIA Torture
Posted: 04/29/2013
CVT issued a statement in response to a April 27, 2013, news article from Roll Call reporting that Vice President Joe Biden supports making public the Senate Intelligence Committee’s review of the Central Intelligence Agency’s detention and interrogation program after September 11, 2001.
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Statement on Remarks Defending Bush-era Torture and Rendition at Bush Library Dedication
Posted: 04/25/2013
In response to a videotaped interview with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defending the Bush Administration’s use of torture and rendition during the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on Thursday, Curt Goering, executive director of the Center for Victims of Torture, issued this statement.
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CVT Statement on Senate’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation
Posted: 04/18/2013
CVT issued a statement in response to the comprehensive immigration reform legislation announced by the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” in the Senate.
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CVT Celebrates 25th Anniversary of U.S. Signing UN Convention Against Torture
Posted: 04/17/2013
CVT celebrates the 25th anniversary of United States signing the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and releases a policy report on U.S. Bi-Partisan Leadership Against Torture.
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CVT Statement on The Report of The Constitution Project’s Task Force on Detainee Treatment
Posted: 04/16/2013
CVT issued a statement in response to The Report of The Constitution Project’s Task Force on Detainee Treatment released today in Washington, DC.
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CVT Raises Concerns about Possible Promotion of CIA Employee Reportedly Involved in Torture Program
Posted: 04/11/2013
CVT and others signed a letter to John O. Brennan, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, expressing concern about the possible promotion of a CIA employee who reportedly was involved in the CIA’s past detention and interrogation program to serve as Director of the National Clandestine Service.
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As Hunger Strike Enters Third Month 25 Prominent Human Rights Organizations Pen Letter to Obama Urging Swift Closure of Guantánamo
Posted: 04/11/2013
CVT is among 25 prominent human rights and civil liberties organizations that sent a joint letter to President Obama urging the swift closure of Guantánamo and steps to end the hunger strike legally and humanely and end more than 11 years of indefinite detention.
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New Help for Victims of Torture and War Trauma at a Minnesota Medical Clinic
Posted: 04/03/2013
HealthEast Care System and CVT today announced Healing Hearts, Creating Hope: Exploring the Efficacy of Integrated Mental Health Services for New Refugees, a three-year collaborative project to provide new, on-site mental health services to refugees at the HealthEast Roselawn Clinic in St. Paul, MN.
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