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"Witness Against Torture" Trial Diary: Entry 5

Today was the most powerful day I have ever spent in a court of law.  Clear and apt statements about Guantanamo Bay Prison — and our first amendment rights to speak out  at a time when torture has become legal as as policy and practice — were made throughout the day.  Toward the afternoon, after three days in court, thirty-four of us were found guilty. 

We will be sentenced tomorrow.

Here is the Witness Against Torture press release about today’s events:

ANTI-TORTURE ACTIVISTS CONVICTED — GUANTANAMO PRISON PUT ON TRIAL

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