The Harvey Point Defense Testing Activity facility, owned by the Department of Defense, is located on a peninsula in Perquimans County, North Carolina, along Albemarle Sound, near the town of Hertford, NC.

Sep 27, 2018 · Today, the North Carolina Commission to Investigate Torture (NCCIT) published a report, Torture Flights, that investigates North Carolina’s role in the CIA's illegal Rendition and Torture program, and traces 49 cases of torture in which the state was directly involved.

Oct 28, 2020 · At the urging of anti-torture advocates, North Carolina Democratic Congressman David Price is requesting that the CIA disclose information regarding the state’s outsized role in the...

In the years following 9/11, North Carolina was used as a staging ground to launch flights that picked up captives abroad and transported them to CIA "black sites" and third-party countries where they were illegally detained and tortured.

This report investigates North Carolina’s role in that illegal program. The program made use of Department of Defense facilities, a network of ten CIA-controlled secret prisons or black sites in six countries, and the facilities of foreign governments.

After 9/11, North Carolina assisted flights in transporting suspected terrorists to CIA black sites where they were illegally detained and tortured.

Six days after the attacks, President George W. Bush signed a covert memorandum that authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to seize, detain, and interrogate suspected terrorists around the world. This report investigates North Carolina’s role in that illegal program.

Nov 12, 2018 · The event is co-sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Human Rights Law Society, and the International Law Society.

Seeking justice for the U.S. torture program of the post-9/11 period has required a lot of stubbornness. In North Carolina, a 12-year quest has led to a new report, “Torture Flights: North Carolina’s Role in the CIA Rendition and Torture Program.”

Dec 7, 2018 · A commission that included faculty from Duke University and Duke Law and was supported by the Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic has issued a report on North Carolina’s role in a Central Intelligence Agency-led program to apprehend, detain, and transport suspected terrorists to be held, interrogated, and tortured outside the United S...