Christina Cowger from North Carolina Stop Torture Now gave a wonderful presentation to Duke University’s Summer Institute on Human Rights about the state’s role in extraordinary rendition and torture. She used this Witness video, which has footage of German citizen Khaled el-Masri recounting his experience being tortured in Morocco.
It’s hard to watch. But more people need to hear this story.
The Duke Human Rights Center is partnering with NCSTN and the UNC Law School’s clinic on Immigration and Human Rights Policy to support an accountability process for the state. We want to inform people about the links between North Carolina and extraordinary rendition/torture and propose legislation that would prevent operations involving torture from being based in the state.
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