Green emphasized the adverse impact that the torture scandal had imposed on Chicago’s black community, and how a fair sentence would help to mitigate the untold damage that it had done. A cop killer who fought to expose torture in the Chicago Police Department has died, but his testimony from beyond the grave could still help bring down its perpetrators. Help publish journalism with real integrity and independence - click here to donate to Truthout! In These Times has covered Burge and the movement to achieve a modicum of justice for his victims very closely over the years (you can read our past coverage here, here, here, here, and here). Not only should he resolve these cases so taxpayers can compensate the victims rather than the torturers. And given that today is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, it seems like an apt time to reflect on the history of this movement - and how it won. "still alive," which was "a luxury" that the victims of Qaeda attacks did not have. 11 attacks. "A vulnerable target for extremist recruiting, he fell to influences furthering Islamic radical philosophies, just as many others have in recent years," the letter said.

He said: "You think you have pride. Laughing, Daley continued "You do that, and everybody feels good. On the heels of the ruling, PLO lawyers, who had brought Tillman’s suit, subpoenaed Daley to give sworn deposition testimony. Willis enlisted the National Conference of Black Lawyers and US Congressman Danny Davis, and together with the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights, and lawyers from the People’s Law Office (PLO) presented testimony at a hearing before the IACHR, raising the right to financial compensation and full rehabilitation for Chicago police torture survivors in a submission to the UN CAT. Burge’s conviction provided a platform to continue the call for restorative justice, and Holmes, BUYING GENERIC GLYBURIDE Jones, and lawyers from the PLO, along with Alice Kim, a veteran activist who was working with the Illinois Coalition Against Torture, seized the opportunity to raise the issue of compensation and lack of psychological counseling for all torture survivors on a wide-ranging public stage.