Torture Survivors

Letters to the Editor: (Berkeley Daily Planet)

12 May 2008

L A Wood should stop complaining about the past and offer solutions for the recreation needs of thousands of Berkeley and area youth.

Andijan eyewitnesses 'silenced' (BBC News)

12 May 2008

Human Rights Watch accuses the Uzbek government of silencing witnesses to the 2005 Andijan killings.

$50 million settlement OKed in Loop fire (Chicago Sun-Times)

12 May 2008

A City Council committee signed off today on a $50 million settlement — the largest in Chicago history — for survivors of a 2003 Loop high-rise fire and relatives of six victims who died after being trapped in smoke-filled stairwells that locked behind them.