{"id":2,"date":"2013-11-14T04:41:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T09:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-01-19T08:55:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T13:55:38","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About NCSTN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>North Carolina Stop Torture Now<\/strong>\u00a0is a grassroots coalition of individuals from a variety of backgrounds across the state, including faith, human rights, peace, veteran, and academic.\u00a0 We have worked since 2005 to expose and end North Carolina\u2019s central role in the post-9\/11 U.S. torture program, and to seek justice and redress for the survivors and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Our special focus has been on the \u201ctorture taxis\u201d of Aero Contractors, a CIA-affiliated aviation company headquartered at the Johnston County Airport near Raleigh.\u00a0 With the support of our tax dollars, Aero has played a key role in the CIA\u2019s \u201cextraordinary rendition\u201d program.\u00a0 The CIA and Aero also used the state-run Global TransPark in Kinston as a base for secret renditions.\u00a0 The non-governmental NC Commission of Inquiry on Torture has identified 49 individuals whom Aero helped the CIA kidnap and transport to be tortured.\u00a0 We are calling on federal, state and local government officials to investigate Aero\u2019s role in these violations and take steps toward accountability.<\/p>\n<p><b>Follow us on Facebook\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ncstn\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/FBLogo.jpg\" alt=\"FBLogo\" width=\"36\" height=\"36\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina Stop Torture Now\u00a0is a grassroots coalition of individuals from a variety of backgrounds across the state, including faith, human rights, peace, veteran, and academic.\u00a0 We have worked since 2005 to expose and end North Carolina\u2019s central role in the post-9\/11 U.S. torture program, and to seek justice and redress for the survivors and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}