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
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…
Candidates Cooper and McCrory: Break Your Silence on Torture!
Join us Wednesday, March 9 at two vigils and a press conference in Raleigh, calling on the likely Democratic and Republican candidates for Governor to investigate NC’s torture taxi program, demand accountability, and provide redress to those harmed. Sponsors: Movement to End Racism & Islamophobia, NC Council of Churches, NC Stop Torture Now.
John Kiriakou speaks to large crowds in North Carolina
North Carolina was ready for the message about truth, fear, and torture that whistleblower John Kiriakou brought on his five-city tour. Over 100 people attended a gathering with the former CIA officer at UNC’s Carroll Hall on October 27. Mr. Kiriakou explained how he came to confirm the CIA’s use of illegal torture on detainees, and how…
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.
CIA whistleblower to visit North Carolina
The only ex-CIA officer to suffer consequences for the U.S. torture program comes to North Carolina Oct. 27-29, 2015. John Kiriakou is a former high-ranking CIA counter-terrorism officer and the first U.S. official to confirm the CIA was torturing its detainees by waterboarding them. As a whistleblower, Mr. Kiriakou served nearly two years in a Federal…
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…