Protesters Plan UC Berkeley Law Graduation Action

Source: los angeles chronicle

This year´s UC Berkeley Law (Boalt Hall) commencement ceremony will be the site of anti-torture protest initiated by the national organization World Can´t Wait and other anti-torture organizations, lawyers, and activists.

Yesterday, World Can´t Wait student organizer Giovanni Jackson said: "The University of California can´t continue to employ a war criminal, John Yoo.

We´ll greet the graduates, inviting them all to join the fight to end America´s torture program, and end UC and Boalt´s complicity with it."

As a key legal architect of the Bush-Cheney administration´s torture policies and practices, Yoo and his then-supervisor Jay Bybee are key subjects of the recently released report by the Justice Department´s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). Protest organizers claim the OPR report provides new evidence that both men are not only guilty of professional misconduct – but that by legal standards established through the post-World War II Nuremberg trials, Yoo and Bybee have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity and should face prosecution.

For several years the protesters have been calling for Yoo to be fired from the University of California, and disbarred, as well as prosecuted for war crimes.

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