imagebrowser imageClick the map and join a local coalition or start one!

Find a Group

Sign Up

SUBSCRIBE to our newsletter and news digest

Read our July newsletter

Newsletter archive

Join North Carolina Stop Torture Now group

Join Group

North Carolina Stop Torture Now

Printer-friendly versionSend to friendPDF version

Guantánamo Bay: Beyond the Law's Reach

by Josh McIntyre

Raleigh, NC - Nearly 50 concerned citizens attended "Guantánamo Bay: Beyond the Law's Reach?" a Nov. 14 event aimed at once to:

  • Raise funds for the costs associated with three NC attorneys' volunteer efforts to represent Sharifullah, and other Guantánamo detainees; and
  • To educate the community about the plight and human condition of Sharifullah and other detainees.

 

Sharifullah

Current status: 
Not cleared, no charges

Sharifullah is among 12 Guantánamo prisoners whom the Obama administration repatriated on December 20.  Read the article, US sends 12 Gitmo detainees to their home nations.

Saifullah Paracha

Current status: 
Not cleared, no charges

Saifullah Paracha, 60, is a Pakistani national.  He traveled to the US to study when he was 26 years old and remained there with his family for approximately 10 years before returning to Pakistan to set up an export business.

Paracha was scheduled to fly to Thailand for a business meeting on in July 2003, but when he arrived at the Bangkok airport on July 6, he was seized, hooded, and cuffed, thrown into the back of a vehicle and taken to an unknown location where he was held for a few days, blindfolded, with his ears covered and his hands and legs cuffed.

Location

--
Raleigh, NC, 27650
United States
See map: Google Maps