Many Amnesty International members have long experience with the challenge of opposing state-sponsored torture in other countries. But when human rights activists in North Carolina found that a trail of torture led to their own backdoor, they learned that talking to neighbors about human rights abuses is just as difficult as challenging a foreign government.
The Washington Post last week featured a story, “Hangar 3’s Mystery” about the work of North Carolina Stop Torture Now to document the activities of a small, nominally private air charter company, Aero Contractors, whose headquarters are at an airfield in Smithfield, North Carolina.