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Act Against Torture
Scope and Contents
The website contains photographs of protests and other actions, press coverage of the organization, news and background information related to human rights, fliers, factsheets, and other organizing materials. The website was active from 2005-2009.
Content Warning
This website contains graphic images of torture.
Historical Note
Act Against Torture was a coalition of activists based in the Bay Area in California that worked to abolish torture and detention, to end United States intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to prevent future wars. The organization opposed "Keep Gitmo Open" campaigns; called for the prosecution and firing of John Yoo; advocated for freeing the San Francisco 8; and called for shutting down the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.actagainsttorture.org/index.html
American Civil Liberties Union
Custodial History
In 2010, http://www.aclu.org/safefree/index.html redirected to http://www.aclu.org/keep-america-safe-free. In 2012, http://www.aclu.org/keep-america-safe-free redirected to https://www.aclu.org/keep-america-safe-and-free-0. In 2015, http://www.aclu.org/accountability redirected to https://www.aclu.org/feature/accountability-torture/.
In 2015, https://www.aclu.org/keep-america-safe-and-free-0 redirected to https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/. In 2016, https://www.aclu.org/feature/accountability-torture/ redirected under the host for https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/. https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/ was added to the web archives in 2018.
Accountability for Torture
Scope and Contents
The website contains FOIA documents filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, their investigation of the torture program, analysis of United States Senate Report on CIA Detention Interrogation Program, press releases and news related to court cases and document requests, documents and news related to Mohamed et al. v Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc and Ali v. Rumsfeld et al, and an outline on how the Obama administration could redress the torture program. The website underwent a redesign and redirect in 2015.
Historical Note
The Accountability for Torture Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, worked to hold the George W. Bush administration accountable for the treatment of prisoners in United States custody overseas. They worked to do this through FOIA requests, litigation, and action campaigns.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.aclu.org/accountability
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://www.aclu.org/feature/accountability-torture/
Close Gitmo and End Military Commissions
Scope and Contents
Contains news related to Guantánamo Bay, executive orders from President Obama related to the closing of Guantánamo Bay, and an FAQ related to detainees. The website was active from 2009-2011 and redirected to the ACLU page in 2012 on the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
Historical Note
Close Gitmo and End Military Commissions is a website of the American Civil Liberties Union Accountability for Torture Project.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.closegitmo.com/
Close Guantánamo
Scope and Contents
The Close Guantánamo website contains press releases and statements by the ACLU on the continued use of the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp, an activist toolkit, infographics on the cost and detainees, and an outline on how the federal government can close Guantánamo. The webpage redesigned and redirected to a new URL in 2015 and 2022.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://www.aclu.org/close-guantanamo
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://www.aclu.org/feature/close-guantanamo/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/close-guantanamo/
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp
Scope and Contents
Website containing news, commentary, press releases, campaign information, podcasts, and litigation related to ACLU's ongoing work with closing the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/detention/guantanamo-bay-detention-camp/
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp Search Results
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://www.aclu.org/search/?f[0]=field_issues:134
National Security Project
Scope and Contents
The National Security Project website contains news, FOIA requests, press releases, summaries of court cases and legal documents, legislative documents, blog posts, infographics, podcasts, and reports. Issues focused on in the project include torture, surveillance, secrecy, detention, discriminatory profiling, targeted killing, military commissions, dissent, and exclusion. The campaign Safe and Free at Home/Keep America Safe and Free was absorbed by the project in circa 2015.
Historical Note
Originally created as an informal working group after the September 2001 attacks, the National Security Project (NSP) advocated for national security policies that are consistent with the Constitution, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights. The Project litigated cases relating to detention, torture, discrimination, surveillance, censorship, and secrecy. Safe and Free at Home (later Keep America Safe and Free) is a campaign of the ACLU's National Security project.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.aclu.org/keep-america-safe-free
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://www.aclu.org/keep-america-safe-and-free-0
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.aclu.org/safefree/index.html
Center for Constitutional Rights
Scope and Contents
List and accompanying documentation related to active cases of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). Issues focused on by CCR include abusive immigration practices, corporate human rights abuses, criminalizing dissent, discriminatory policing, drone killings, government surveillance, the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, LGBTQIA+ persecution, mass incarceration, Muslim profiling, Palestinian solidarity, racial injustice, sexual and gender-based violence, torture, war crimes, and militarism.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/active-cases website was added as a replacement for http://ccrjustice.org/cases-issue, which became defunct in 2014 and redirected to https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/active-cases in 2015. The website was added to the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp & War Crimes (U.S.) Web Archive in 2018. The accession number associated with this website is 2019.090.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://ccrjustice.org/cases-issue
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://ccrjustice.org/cases-issue?content=cases-issue&issues=2&sort=date&op=Display&form_id=sort_filter_form
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/active-cases
Crimes of War Project
Scope and Contents
The Crimes of War Project contains a glossary, commentary arranged by region, and other articles. It also includes the Killid Group Project on Journalism Training in Afghanistan and high school education projects. The website features analysis on the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp, international law, and conflicts in Chechnya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda, Afghanistan, Cambodia, East Timor, Chile, Colombia, the Balkans, Iraq, and Israel/Palestine. The website was active from 1999-2011.
Historical Note
Established in 1999, the Crimes of War Project is a collaboration of journalists, lawyers, and scholars that worked to raise awareness of the laws of war and their application to situations of conflict. Their goal was to promote understanding of international humanitarian law among journalists, policymakers, and the general public, in the belief that the knowledge of the legal framework governing armed conflict will lead to public pressure to prevent breaches of the law and to punish perpetrators. The website is based on the book Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.crimesofwar.org/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.crimesofwar.org/index.html
National Security Archive
Scope and Contents
The website contains companion resources for the documentary Torturing Democracy, select documents in the National Security Archive, press releases on new documents added the Archive, and blog posts about the Archive. The database of documents is not captured in the web archives.
Historical Note
The Torture Archive, published in 2009, centralizes primary source documents related to the "United States government policy on the detention and interrogation of individuals in the 'global war on terror' since September 11, 2001." The Archive includes records from ACLU lawsuits against the United States Department of Defense and other federal agencies; documents from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) and Administrative Review Boards (ARB); FOIA requests; and court documents from Writs of Habeas Corpus Petitions filed by Guantánamo Bay detainees.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/torture_archive/index.htm
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/torture_archive/index.htm
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.aladin0.wrlc.org/gsdl/collect/torture/torture.shtml
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/torture_archive/index.htm
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/project/torture-archive/
Reprieve
Scope and Contents
The website contains casework, policy and research, media and reports, newsletters, creative projects, action campaigns, petitions, and news. Investigation topics include the CIA drone program, detention at Guantánamo Bay, ending executions and lethal injections, the death penalty, the Pakistan Police Torture project, secret prisons, and the United Kingdom's government complicity in torture. Materials on the website date back to 2005.
Historical Note
Reprieve is a legal action non-profit that investigates, litigates, and campaigns against human rights abuses. Issues focused on include ending the death penalty, closing the Guantánamo Bay Prison, stopping illegal and lethal drones, ending the use of torture, and unlawful detention. Reprieve and Reprieve US are two individual organizations but work closely together and share financial resources. Reprieve US focuses on litigation in the United States, whereas Reprieve focuses more globally.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://reprieve.org.uk/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://reprieve.org/uk/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://reprieve.org/us/
United States Department of Defense
Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) and Administrative Review Board (ARB) Documents
Scope and Contents
Contains unclassified summaries of evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunals held between July 2004 and July 2007. Included are summaries for High Value Detainees (HVD).
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/index.html
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.dod.gov/pubs/foi/operation_and_plans/Detainee/csrt_arb/index.html
Combatant Status Review Tribunals/Administrative Review Boards
Scope and Contents
The webpage contains administrative review board procedures notifications and summaries, photos, news releases, news articles, instructions, and briefing transcripts. Also includes a biography of Captain Frank Sweigart, and unclassified summaries, transcripts, and audio of hearings for Abu Faraj al-Libi, Walid Bin Attash, Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, Ramzi Bin al-Shib, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Mohd Farik bin Amin "Zubair", Mustafa Al Hawsawi, Al Nashiri, Abd Al Rahim Hussein Mohammed, Bashir Bin Lap (also known as Lillie), Ammar Al Baluchi, Rjduan Bin Isomuddiiu (also known as Hambali), Zayn Al Abidin Muhammad Husayn (also known as Zubaydah), Guleed Hassan Ahmed, and Majid Khan.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Combatant_Tribunals.html
Detainee Death Investigation
Scope and Contents
Contains documents released in litigation concerning three detainee deaths at the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp on June 10, 2006.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://osd.dtic.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/death_investigation/
Detainee Related Documents
Scope and Contents
Contains documents related to Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp detainees obtained/posted via the Freedom of Information Act on the website of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Staff Reading Room. Documents are dated from 2005-2009.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/
Detainees Investigations Briefing Transcripts
Scope and Contents
Briefing transcripts, interviews, and speeches related to Abu Ghraib, Donald Rumsfeld, and Guantánamo Bay.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.defenselink.mil/news/brieftrans.html
Detainees Investigations Special Reports
Scope and Contents
Contains reports related to detainee operations and abuses at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, independent panel reports, and Army Inspector General reports. Reports date from 2004-2005.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.defense.gov/news/detainee_investigations.html
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.defenselink.mil/news/detainee_investigations.html
United States Department of Justice, Office of Information Policy
Scope and Contents
Posts on the FOIA Post blog. Contains summaries of Federal court decisions pertaining to the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp that were received by the Office of Information Policy.
Summaries of New Decisions -- August 2007
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.justice.gov/oip/foiapost/2007foiapost16.htm
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://www.justice.gov/oip/blog/foia-post-2007-summaries-new-decisions-august-2007/
Summaries of New Decisions -- June 2008
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.justice.gov/oip/foiapost/summariesnewdecisionsjune08.htm
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://www.justice.gov/oip/blog/foia-post-2008-summaries-new-decisions-june-2008/
Summaries of New Decisions -- October 2008
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.justice.gov/oip/foiapost/2008foiapost34.htm
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://www.justice.gov/oip/blog/foia-post-2008-summaries-new-decisions-october-2008/
Summaries of New Decisions -- January 2009
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.justice.gov/oip/foiapost/2009foiapost3.htm
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://www.justice.gov/oip/blog/foia-post-2009-summaries-new-decisions-january-2009/
Summaries of New Decisions -- September 2009
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.justice.gov/oip/foiapost/2009foiapost21.htm
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://www.justice.gov/oip/blog/foia-post-2009-summaries-new-decisions-september-2009
United States Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General
Semiannual Report to Congress
Scope and Contents
Contains an Office of the Inspector General report to Congress regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigations involvement in and observation of detainee interrogations in Guantánamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Report covers the period of April 1, 2008-September 30, 2008.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.justice.gov/oig/semiannual/0811/fbi.htm
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://oig.justice.gov/semiannual/0811/fbi.htm
Statement of Glenn A. Fine (Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice) before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight concerning "The Role of the FBI at Guantánamo Bay"
Scope and Contents
Contains testimony of the Office of the Inspector General given on June 4, 2008 regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation's observation of and involvement in detainee interrogations at the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.justice.gov/oig/testimony/t0806/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://oig.justice.gov/testimony/t0806/
Statement of Glenn A. Fine (Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice) before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary concerning "Detainee Interrogation Techniques"
Scope and Contents
Contains testimony of the Office of the Inspector General given before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on June 10, 2008 regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation's observation of and involvement in detainee interrogations at the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.justice.gov/oig/testimony/t0806a/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://oig.justice.gov/testimony/t0806a/
United States Federal Bureau of Investigation
Detainees Positive Responses
Historical Note
The FBI on January 2, 2007 released documents related to an internal inquiry in 2004 of FBI personnel who had served at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba since September 11, 2001 and had observed any aggressive interview techniques, interrogations, or mistreatment of detainees by representatives of law enforcement, the military, or the FBI. There were no documented incidents involving FBI personnel.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://foia.fbi.gov/guantanamo/detainees.pdf
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://vault.fbi.gov/Guantanamo%20/
Guantánamo Bay Inquiry
Scope and Contents
Contains a survey of 493 Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel asking whether they observed aggressive mistreatment, interrogations, or interview techniques at the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://foia.fbi.gov/guantanamo/122106.htm
United States Senate Committee on Armed Services
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://armed-services.senate.gov/Publications/Detainee%20Report%20Final_April%2022%202009.pdf
Wikileaks
Scope and Contents
Contains the United States Department of Defense Joint Task Force Guantánamo (JTF-GTMO) standard operating procedures (SOP) for Camp Delta (Guantánamo Bay prison), 2003 and related documents. This is the primary document for the operation of Guantánamo Bay, including the securing and treatment of detainees. The document is extensive and includes, in addition to text, various forms, identity cards and even Muslim burial instructions.
Historical Note
Wikileaks, founded by Julian Assange in 2006, is a multinational organization that publishes "large datasets of censored or otherwise restricted official materials involving war, spying and corruption."
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://secure.wikileaks.org/leak/gitmo-sop.pdf
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Camp_Delta_Standard_Operating_Procedure
Witness Against Torture
Scope and Contents
The websites contain information on the annual January 11 actions, their campaign calling the Obama administration to close Guantánamo during the first 100 days of his presidency, photos from the actions and at visits to Cuba, biographies of detainees, detainee letters, activist testimonies, book and film resources, and news and press releases related to Guantánamo Bay and Bagram Detention facilities.
Historical Note
Witness Against Torture, formed in 2005, was established when 25 Americans went to Guantánamo Bay and attempted to visit the detention facility. The group organized nonviolent direct actions, such as hunger strikes, demonstration, and other acts of civil disobedience. Annually, on January 11, they hold events and vigils to mark the anniversary of the first prisoners brought to Guantánamo Bay in 2002. In 2008, the 100 Days Campaign was a campaign organized by Witness Against Torture to close the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp and end torture and rendition by the United States within the first 100 days of the Obama administration, mostly focusing on Uighur detainees and the expansion of the Bagram Theatre Internment Facility. The group held daily vigils outside of the White House and met with United States representatives.
The January 11 Day of Action Against Guantánamo was an action organized by Witness Against Torture, marking the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp in 2012. During the two-week hunger strike associated with the action, five activists were also on trial for unlawful conduct related to speaking out against an "appropriations bill containing a measure to strip funding from any efforts to repatriate Guantánamo detainees" in the House of Representatives.
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://witnesstorture.org/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.witnesstorture.org/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://www.100dayscampaign.org/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/http://2012.witnesstorture.org/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6345/*/https://witnessagainsttorture.com/
