Help Ground Air Torture!
Air Torture is Amnesty International's campaign against the U.S. government's covert extraordinary rendition flight program. In the post-9/11 context, rendition has come to mean the extralegal forced transfer of an individual into the custody of a country with a known record of using torture and other inhuman treatment.
The Air Torture campaign is a creative way to raise public awareness about the issue of rendition, educate people on this serious human rights abuse, and get individuals to take action to end the practice of "extraordinary rendition" (and "ground Air Torture") once and for all.
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Resources
Air Torture Action Guide
Bring the message of “grounding Air Torture” to your community! Get started today by down loading the special Air Torture Action guide. You can request that a copy of the Air Torture Action Guide to be mailed to you by sending us an email. Be sure to include your name, phone number and mailing address in the email, as well as your Amnesty International affiliation.
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the guide (PDF). »
Case Studies
Amnesty International believes that the number of individuals who have been
rendered over the past five years by the U.S. government could be in the hundreds.
Most of these cases remain unknown due to the secretive nature of the rendition
program. Read about the cases of thee men who were rendered by the U.S. government
(PDF):
Maher
Arar (watch his interview)
| Salah
‘Ali Qaru | Mohammed
Haydar Zammar
Air Torture Route Map
Download the Air Torture route map to see the secret flights and detention centers
that have been uncovered by organizations like Amnesty International, as well
as the names of some of the individuals who have been transported via extraordinary
rendition.
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the map (PDF). »
Print Your Own Boarding Pass
You can print your own Air Torture boarding pass/action postcard here
(PDF). You can request Air Torture board pass/action postcards be sent to you
by emailing us.
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