Acknowledge & apologize for the wrongful imprisonment & torture of Abou ElKassim Sign petition
Lets help North Carolina Human Right's Advocates seek justice.
https://www.change.org/p/president-barack-obama-of-the-united-states-king-mohammed-vi-of-morocco-acknowledge-and-apologize-for-the-wrongful-imprisonment-and-torture-of-abou-elkassim-britel
Abou ElKassim Britel was arrested in 2002, imprisoned, tortured brutally, and detained until 2011. He has never received an official acknowledgement of wrongdoing, apology, or restitution from Pakistan, The United States, Morocco, or Italy, the governments responsible for his ordeal.
While traveling for business purposes, Abou ElKassim Britel was arrested and detained in Pakistan in March 2002. Mr. Britel, an innocent Italian citizen of Moroccan descent, was beaten with a cricket bat, suspended from the walls of his cell for extensive periods, and deprived of sleep for three days while tied to a gate. Interrogations by the police and Pakistani secret service agents were so violent that he required medical attention for a week afterward.
North Carolina human rights advocates and a legal team from the University of North Carolina School of Law are pressing for an apology on behalf of a man who was tortured in Pakistani and Moroccan prisons over nine years, and, according to documents, secretly transported by the CIA on a North Carolina-based plane.
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/10/12/4222973/unc-legal-team-rights-advocates.html#storylink=cpy
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