Amnesty International Experts Available to Provide Insight and Analysis of Obama Administration's Torture Reports and Expected Announcements
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WASHINGTON, DC UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Amnesty International experts Tom Parker and Vienna Colucci are available to the media to provide in-depth analysis and strategic insights into the Central Intelligence Agency Inspector General's report regarding abuses by CIA employees, possible decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a prosecutor to investigate detainee abuses and other announcements and decisions.
Tom Parker is Amnesty International USA's policy director for (counter) terrorism and human rights. He is a former officer in the British Security Service (MI5). He spent the bulk of his service working as an investigator in the fields of international terrorism and organized crime. He is also a former war crimes investigator with the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia working in the field in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and Macedonia.
Vienna Colucci is Amnesty International USA's Managing Director for Policy and one of the foremost experts on international law and justice. She was instrumental in helping to promote the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The human rights organization has called on President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to create an independent and impartial commission to examine the use of torture, indefinite detention, secret renditions and other illegal U.S. counterterrorism policies.
Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with more than 2.2 million supporters, activists and volunteers in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. The organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied.
