President. today I am introducing the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998. I am joined today by Senator KENNEDY and Senator HARKIN as original cosponsors of this measure. This legislation outlines a comprehensive strategy for providing critical assistance to refugees. asylees. and parolees who are torture survivors in the U.S. and abroad. It also protects asylum seekers from being involuntary returned to a country where they have reasonable grounds to fear subjection to torture. This legislation provides a focus and a framework for a newly reenergized debate about where torture survivors. and our response to the practice of torture by other countries. fit within our foreign policy priorities. Late in the 103rd Congress.
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