We are not trying to convince you about this project

FIND

IF

YOU

THIS

IMAGE

THEN YOU ARE ALREADY #STOPTORTURE

Team: Red Velvet Instructor: G. Kakolyris

“No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,

inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 5

But…

“Amnesty International has also documented numerous cases of

police abuses in the context of anti-austerity demonstrations

in Spain, Romania, Italy …

and especially

GREECE in recent years”

Torture and ill-treatment and Europe’s borders

“In recent years, Amnesty

International has documented

numerous abuses, including

dangerous push-backs of migrants

and refugees across the European

Union’s external borders…

…particularly along the

Greece-Turkey border and

across Spain’s land- borders with

Morocco. These often involve

credible allegations of beatings

and degrading treatment”

Amnesty International's new worldwide campaign #StopTorture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW23928v_Kw 1

Global crisis on torture exposed

by new worldwide campaign Launched this May.

The example of UK.

2

An open discussion live streamed at 14th of May by Amnesty International UK

“Stop torture:

survivors and experts expose the truth”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSkW1Q4tLEA

3

People were asked to ask a question for

Amnesty International’s experts and

survivors - add it to the comments below

the video or use

#StopTortureQ on

Twitter

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& some

uncomfortable

numbers

Localization of the campaign

With the objective of achieving a shock imagery in order to awaken

the Greek public & Raise awareness of the issue

The recent outburst & suspiciousness against all NGOs in Greece

because some of them were involved in economic scandals

The sensitive matter of police violence and corruption

We do not want to cause another riot

The Relationship between Greece and Turkey

Problematic customary of the International Law in the Aegean area

But ALSO the importance of promoting the issue, which affects our

society

we propose a different approach

Virtual reality Chair >> An empty chair will be placed in a central square or

street those who will sit on it will see through virtual reality what it feels like to be

tortured. Those who will pass by the chair will see the person’s reaction and

become curious to understand what is happening.

Theatrical representation of torture >> In a central square we will put up a

street theater play with scenes of torture. Some might be disturbed by this

scenes and others will not react until they find out the shocking number of

people that actually live the exact same scenes.

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We propose a live demonstration with different actions in central places around Athens,

Patra, Lesvos, Samos, Orestiada etc

in order to underline the importance of the subject

examples

We want to attract...

PR agencies

What we are asking for is…

a pro bono project

For the public good

For justice

To inspire

To offer

To show the right way

To make a difference

If all these values represent your agency then..

just go for it!

& why Pro bono?

Just because….

Thank you for

helping create a

better, fairer &

happier world

Red Velvet team : Chatzi Anisa-Ilianna, Christodoulopoulou Catherine, Kaleris Christos, Kountourioti Dimitra,

Neophytou Chrysis, Papagianopoulou Elsa, Psarianos Marios, Sampani Ioanna