A good resource for understanding rendition circuits, North Carolina links: “The Rendition Project website is the product of a collaborative research project between Dr. Ruth Blakeley at the University of Kent and Dr. Sam Raphael at Kingston University. Following the declaration of the ‘war on terror’ in September 2001, the US government led the way…
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February 6, 2015: Call-In to Sen. Richard Burr: Release the Full Torture Report Now!
Days after U.S. Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) took the helm as chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee early this year, he moved to bury his committee’s 6,900-page report on the CIA torture program. In his first major act as the nation’s top watchdog over the spy agency, Burr chose to protect the CIA by demanding…
About NCSTN
North Carolina Stop Torture Now is a grassroots coalition of individuals from a variety of backgrounds across the state, including faith, human rights, peace, veteran, and academic. We have worked since 2005 to expose and end North Carolina’s central role in the post-9/11 U.S. torture program, and to seek justice and redress for the survivors and…
NCCIT begins work, gains news coverage
The The North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture (NCCIT) had its formal launch with a conference call for media on March 15, 2017. So far, here’s the coverage: WUNC, The State of Things: New Commission to probe alleged NC connection in extraordinary rendition flights (listen) AP national story (as seen in the New York Times, as…