About ICAT

MISSION: The Illinois Coalition Against Torture (ICAT) is an association of individuals and community-based organizations whose goal is to end U.S. torture by state actors at all levels of government at home and abroad.   We also want to eliminate the culture of impunity regarding torture through influencing public opinion and advocating for political change.

ICAT MEMBERS:

Adler Institute on Social Exclusion
Alliance 1-11
ARC: A Movement for Re-imagining Change
8th Day Center for Justice
Citizens Alert
Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)–Chicago
Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice
Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
Community Involvement Association
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
Heartland Alliance Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture
Illinois SOA Watch
International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University College of Law
MacArthur Justice Center
Muslim Bar Association
National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression–Chicago
National Immigrant Justice Center
National Lawyers Guild–Chicago Branch
Peace Pledge Chicago
Project NIA
Provincial Council of the Viatorian Community
Rainbow PUSH  Coalition
Stateville Speaks
Susan Gzesh, Senior Lecturer and Director, Human Rights Program, University of Chicago
Tamms Year Ten
Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
West Town Community Law Office
White Rose Catholic Worker
Witness Against Torture Youth Advocate Programs (YAP), Adult Division, Chicago

You can reach us at ilcoalitionagainsttorture (at) gmail.com

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The Illinois Coalition Against Torture (ICAT) educates on the complex issues of U.S. sponsored torture and shares that knowledge and experience with others so as to become a public witness against such torture.

<!–[if !supportLists]–>1.<!–[endif]–>Advocate for Chicago Police survivors of torture by

<!–[if !supportLists]–>·<!–[endif]–>Holding Chicago Police officers, including former Police Commander Jon Burge and other detectives under his command, accountable for their crimes of torture

<!–[if !supportLists]–>·<!–[endif]–>Seeking new hearings for the torture survivors who remain wrongfully convicted and languishing in prison

<!–[if !supportLists]–>·<!–[endif]–>Calling for financial reparations for Torture survivors

<!–[if !supportLists]–>2.<!–[endif]–>Advocate for the passage of local, state and federal legislation criminalizing acts of torture committed by law enforcement officials in the US

<!–[if !supportLists]–>3.<!–[endif]–>Facilitate educational programs opposing US Sponsored torture