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Vince Warren: Discussing the Supreme Court Decision
Danny Glover: Rescue the Constitution! Eve Ensler, author of "The Vagina Monologues," speaks about Guantánamo and the current constitutional crisis. Trouble viewing? Click here.
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The Center for Constitutional Rights brought the first Guantánamo case more than five years ago. On December 5th, CCR again represented Guantánamo detainees before the Supreme Court to demand their right to know why they are being held.
On December 5, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the cases of Al Odah v. U.S. and Boumediene v. Bush. These cases represent the third time the high court heard a Guantánamo-related case. The previous two times, the court sided with CCR and the Guantánamo petitioners. To listen to audio of the oral argument, go here. |
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Susan Hu speaks about what it is like to work on CCR's numerous Guantanamo Bay legal battles.
Watch excerpts from the documentary "Guantanamo Unplugged" by Stephan Bachenheimer.
CCR's executive director Vince Warren joins CNN's Rachel Madow, General Ricardo Sanchez, and Ron Suskind to discuss a "blueprint for accountability" on a panel arranged by the Culture Project. This presentation was directed by Fisher Stevens.
Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights speaks with Democracy Now about pushing for prosecutions of Bush Administration Officials for the war crimes they have committed.
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Kiyemba v. Obama is a habeas corpus petition filed in the D.C. District Court on behalf of 17 innocent Uighur men who have been imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay for almost seven years. The government acknowledged as…
Djamel Ameziane is an Algerian refugee who has been detained in Guantánamo Bay for more than six years. He has a pending habeas corpus petition, Ameziane v. Bush, in the D.C. District Court. He has…
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Artist and printmaker Daniel Heyman has sketched many Iraqi torture victims. Daniels artistry makes its return to New York City in this thought provoking exibition: Close Encounters: Acts of A Social Imagination Curators: Donald Russell & Niels Van Tomme, Provisions Learning… Read More >>
June 4, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to the agreement reached by EU Ministries of the Interior and Schengen associated countries establishing a framework for accepting men transferred from… Read More >>
Laura Flanders Journalist and host of GRITtv Chris Hedges Senior fellow at The Nation Institute and former Middle East correspondent for the New York Times Sister Diana Ortiz Survivor of torture, founder and director for 10 years of Torture Abolition… Read More >>
United States of America v. Osama Awadallah is a lawsuit in which the Center for Constitutional Rights defended Osama Awadallah against charges of making two false material declarations before a grand jury. CCR maintained that Mr. Awadallah was illegally detained… Read More >>
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