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The Fourth Quaker Conference on Torture & Accountability

September 24-26, 2010 at the Quaker Center,

Ben Lomond CA: http://www.quakercenter.org/

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Update August 20!  We are pleased to announce that a third expert in the field of torture and accountability has been added to the conference program.

Human rights attorney and investigator Scott Horton will be the keynote speaker. Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of SOA Watch, and Terry Kupers, consultant to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International will bring their unique perspectives and experiences to the issue of torture.

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Scott Horton

Scott Horton is a human rights lawyer and author.  His investigative journalism has brought new light to American Torture.

Scott Horton has been one of the most tenacious investigators and reporters on issues of torture and accountability. Earlier this year, he broke the stunning story about three Guantanamo prisoners, whose deaths there were previously reported as suicides. Horton's investigations showed they more likely died during torture by US secret units. They were killed at a previously unknown "black site" outside the Guantanamo complex.

Scott continues his reporting at a hard-hitting blog, "No Comment" published by Harper's Magazine.

 

  • National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT)

  • Dallas Friends Meeting (Dallas Texas)
     

Father Roy Bourgeois

Roy Bourgeois, a decorated Vietnam veteran and former missionary to Bolivia, founded SOA Watch in 1990, and has been active in the effort to abolish the "School of Assassins" ever since. He has also been active in the struggle for women's ordination in the Catholic church.  Learn more about Father Roy Bourgeois at SOA Watch.

 

  
     

Terry Kupers

Terry A. Kupers, M.D., M.S.P. is Institute Professor at The Wright Institute, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and, in addition to practicing psychiatry at his office in Oakland, a consultant to various public mental health centers and jail mental health services.  He provides expert testimony as well as consultation and staff training regarding the psychological effects of prison conditions including isolated confinement in super-maximum security units, the quality of correctional mental health care, and the effects of sexual abuse in correctional settings.  Learn more about Dr. Kupers at http://www.wi.edu/faculty_kupers.html.