Religious Organizations Mourn the Death of Habeas Corpus; 16 Arrested
This entry was posted on 10/17/2006 1:23 PM and is filed under TASSC, torture, Civil Disobedience.
As President Bush signed the Military Comissions Act of 2006, about two hundred people gathered in the rain in front of the White House to mourn the death of basic liberties.
After listening to leaders of the religious social justice movement and a choir siging religious hymns, the mourners began a funeral procession to the west gate of the White House. Upon arriving at the gate, those gathered asked the guards at the White House gate to deliver a signing statement to President Bush.
The police surrounded an area with yellow tape and then ordered everyone on the other side of it. Sixteen people refused and were arrested.
Organized by the
Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture.
(Some of these photos also appear in this month's issue of
The Progressive and
Sojourners.)
