TAKE ACTION: Military Tribunals Compromise Violates Our Values

Monday, September 25, 2006

The compromise reached between Senators and the White House on interrogations and trials of military detainees would not end the immoral policy of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment as part of U.S. policy. Read more here, here here, here, here, and here.

The National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT), opposes the terms of the agreement on behalf of a broad spectrum of people of faith. NRCAT points our that the agreement does not clearly prohibit interrogation techniques that are cruel and inhumane; it allows the continued use of secret prisons; it exonerates the perpetrators of torture; and it retroactively eliminates habeas corpus for enemy combatants held in detention centers like Guantanamo, as well as stripping federal court review of any further detention suits.

This legislation will likely come to the Senate floor for a vote this week. Let your Members of Congress and people in your communities know that this legislation violates our country's most basic moral values. Urge Your Senator to Stop Torture here.

Find links to the agreement's language, talking points about the agreement, and other suggested action messages here.