Each year, TASSC receives hundreds of survivors of torture who are seeking help to apply for political asylum in the United States. Many come from Africa, where they were detained and tortured by their governments on account of their political or religious beliefs, or their racial or ethnic identity.   To our shock and surprise, more than forty survivors who came to TASSC in the past two years from Africa, most of them from...
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In recent weeks, family members of victims, and survivor Fatima Cabrera, were present at the public recognition of one of many secret detention centers in Buenos Aires, where she and her late husband, the human rights activist Patrick Rice, both members of TASSC International, were disappeared and tortured in 1976. Thirty years later, survivors and family members of the victims have placed former members of the Argentine military, responsible for crimes against humanity and state terrorism on...
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