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Published articles and radio clips about survivors of torture living in California:

San Diego
North County Times, 2005: He was held in a damp cell without a mattress, given rancid food, threatened with death and beaten unconscious. Joseph's crime: Belonging to a minority religious group. His family bribed his captors to have him released, and Joseph fled to the United States…continue

Ranch & Coast, 2006: For 35 years, Mana was a landscape architect in the Middle East. Though her position as a female professional was uncommon, Mana’s career flourished, and she traveled extensively making parks and green spaces throughout…continue

Los Angeles
PBS Newshour, 2001: On a gray Saturday in this ordinary house in this ordinary Los Angeles suburb, a group of people came together for a festive multicultural gathering. They brought their children. They talked and sang and shared…continue

San Jose
Asian Week, 2001: Khai Chheangmay is a 46-year-old refugee, who arrived in the United States with physical and psychological scars from his experiences as a soldier who served the Lon Nok government in Cambodia. In April 1975, when…continue

San Francisco
San Francisco Chronicle, 2006: Gerald Gray has dedicated his life to helping survivors of political torture from around the world -- and bringing their tormentors to justice…continue

San Francisco Chronicle, 2005: Torture is currently enjoying its 15 minutes of fame, courtesy of the war on terrorism. But, as we are all unfortunately learning, torture American-style is refusing to make a graceful exit from the public stage…continue

KQED, 2005 : Experts say that as many as half a million victims of torture are living in the United States as refugees from oppressive regimes. Many of those are from Asian countries, like Cambodia, Vietnam and India...continue

Sacramento

Sacramento Bee, 2005: Today is the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. In California and around the world people are gathering, as U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has put it, to "pay our respects to those who have endured.. continue