Their ordeal does not end when men are transferred from the Guantanamo Bay prison to another country. Often they remain isolated, without resources to travel or learn language and job skills, and under regular surveillance. Whether they return to their home countries or are resettled elsewhere, survivors of Guantanamo detention face significant hurdles to resuming…
Category: Advocacy
Tell Gov. Cooper & AG Stein: Stop Kidnappings from NC Airports!
Contact North Carolina’s Governor Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein. Call on them to acknowledge our state’s role in torture and stop Aero Contractors from kidnapping again. October 2021 — Gov. Cooper and AG Stein have known for years that Aero Contractors, based at the Johnston County Airport, has helped the CIA kidnap dozens…
Write to a Guantanamo prisoner
The Guantánamo detainees are even more isolated in these days of Covid-19. The International Red Cross is no longer making regular visits, and attorney visits have been greatly cut back due to the need to quarantine at either end of a visit. Click here to sign up to write a letter to a prisoner. A letter template is…
North Carolinians to Gov. Cooper: Break Your Silence on Torture
About 35 people held vigil in the hot sun outside Governor Cooper’s Raleigh office on Wed., June 26. They came from Mecklenburg, Orange, Durham, Wake, and Johnston counties to urge the Governor to break his silence on North Carolina’s shameful role in CIA torture. At the end of the vigil, Jeremy Collins, Director of the…
Shed Light on NC Ties to U.S. Torture
On January 13, 2017, the Raleigh News & Observer published an opinion piece by Deborah Weissman (Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law, UNC Chapel Hill) and Christina Cowger (coordinator of North Carolina Stop Torture Now). Read the piece at Shed Light on NC Ties to U.S. Torture. Note: This Point of View article…
Resolutions against Torture, in support of NCCIT
As of December 2016, the following organizations have passed resolutions condemning the use of torture and/or in support of the North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture: City of Durham, NC City of Carrboro, NC Episcopal Diocese, NC Orange County, NC
Chuck Fager: New torture disclosures have Carolina implications
NCSTN friend Chuck Fager wrote a letter to the editor of the Fayetteville Observer. Please see the letter online at Chuck Fager: New torture disclosures have Carolina implications