North Carolina Stop Torture Now

NORTH CAROLINA
STOP TORTURE
NOW

PO Box 50345
Raleigh, NC 27650
e-mail via:
contact AT ncstoptorturenow.net

(919) 834-4478
(evenings, or messages during business hours)

Link to Information on Victims and Survivors of Extraordinary Rendition

Link to Membership and Donor Information

Link to Planespotting Guidance, Log and Photos

RESOURCES

North Carolina Stop Torture Now is a grassroots coalition of individuals representing themselves and a diversity of faith, human rights, peace, veteran, and student groups across the state.

We aim to stop torture everywhere, and have worked since 2005 to expose and end North Carolina's central role in the acceleration and escalation of U.S. torture programs guided by the Bush Administration.

Our special focus has been on the "torture taxis" of Aero Contractors, Ltd. of Smithfield, and Centurion Aviation of Fayetteville. Both are nominally private companies linked to the operation of aircraft in clandestine support of the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program. Extraordinary rendition is a phrase that disguises the kidnap, detention and torture of individuals alleged to be enemies of the United States, including those guilty of nothing other than being misidentified.

Aero Contractors' headquarters is located at the Johnston County Airport near Smithfield, NC.

We are particularly concerned that state and local government officials and individual citizens recognize their own complicity in the extraordinary rendition program and take prompt steps to provide restorative justice to victims and survivors, to air a full account of human rights violations, and to demand top-down accountability for the authors and perpetrators.

Transparency, Accountability, and Restitution: Our View

A Two-Page Question and Answer Sheet

Our Efforts to Date -- An Incomplete Chronology

Human Cargo: Reprieve's Report on Extraordinary Rendition, which included evidence of North Carolina's role in the program.

A Reading List Instructive books, and web resources on extraordinary rendition, torture, the U.S. torture program and anti-torture activism.

A Very Instructive Video Regarding Psychologists' Involvement in Torture

Information and Resources at Allies' Web sites

More Allies -- Co-Sponsors of the Oct. 27, 2007 Rally

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Where Are Rendition Aircraft Flying Today?

Live flight data are no longer available, but we are actively interested in hearing from those with computer skills that could help us acquire and share this data.

For archival flight data, visit Terminal Air.

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INFORMATION AND RESOURCES AT ALLIES' WEB SITES:

All of the following links are off-site, and will open in a new browser window or tab.

ACAT (Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture)