(October 4, 1974) Jean Pierre Debris, Former Prisoner in South Vietnam, Presents Film "A Question of Torture"

Identifier: Release_1974-1975_1974-473
Title: (October 4, 1974) Jean Pierre Debris, Former Prisoner in South Vietnam, Presents Film "A Question of Torture"
Date: 4 October 1974
extracted text: NEWS
immediate
October

The Evergreen State College
Olympia. Washington

866-6128

98505

release

4, 1974

Jean Pierre Debris,
a Saigon,

South Vietnam

a F.~ench school teacher who spent two-and-a-half
prison, will speak at The Evergreen

State College

years in
October

11

at 3 p.m. in Lecture Hall Four.
The former prisoner
examining

Southeast

and American

will present a 30-minute

Asian political

repression.

film entitled

"A Question

He will also discuss prison

of TortutI"~,"
conditions

aid to the Thieu government.

Debris was imprisoned

in South Vietnam

in 1970 following

staged with another French school teacher, Andre Menras.
in Chi Hoa prison in Saigon for 30 months.
obtained

at the insistence

Accuse,"

and began traveling

Following

he

The two men were imprisoned

their release---which

of the French government---the
throughout

a peace demonstration

two authored

France and the United

was

a book,

States telling

"We

of their

imprisonment.
The free public

address at Evergreen

is sponsored

Committee.

-30-

Dick

Nichols.

Infor mation

Director
Services

by the American

Friends

Service