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
Category: In the news
The Senate Torture Report as Public Record
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is refusing to say whether the Senate Torture Report qualifies as a federal record. A coalition has just made public a letter to David S. Ferriero, the Archivist and head of NARA. NCSTN and the Duke Human Rights Center are signatories. BORDC/Defending Dissent has a blog post…
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights inquiry reports
NCSTN is giving a big shout-out to Prof. Deborah Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Chapel Hill, and her former law students, who in October 2014 filed a petition on behalf of CIA rendition survivor Abou ElKassim Britel (also known as Kassim Britel) with the UN Special Rapporteur…
What’s in the news about torture? The North Carolina angle…
Tar Heels have been doing a great job of getting the issue of U.S. torture into the media! Here are news articles, op-eds, letters-to- the-editor, and editorials just since November 2014.
Senator Burr: More Concerned About President George W. Bush’s Legacy than National Security?
A letter from North Carolina Stop Torture Now coordinator Christina Cowger in the Jan. 23 edition of The Washington Post questions Senator Burr’s respect for his own constituents. Other national media reporting casts doubt on his fitness to lead the committee charged with overseeing the CIA. Even commentators with the unabashedly conservative Fox News outlet…