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July 29, 2010, New York and Phoenix – This afternoon, CCR Attorney Sunita Patel was arrested as she was carrying out her legal observer duties at a protest of Arizona’s unconstitutional immigration law, SB 1070. As police began a sweep,… Read More >>
July 27, 2010, New York – On July 30, 2010 the Organization of American States’ High-Level Commission on Honduras is expected to make recommendations to the OAS member states with regards to the readmission of Honduras into the OAS. After… Read More >>
July 26, 2010 -Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement concerning the Algerian government’s release of former Guantánamo detainee Abdul Aziz Naji: CCR has confirmed that shortly after publication of the lead editorial in yesterday’s New York… Read More >>
Today, the New York Times' top editorial was a strong rebuke to the Obama administration for forceably sending a man from Guantanamo to his native Algeria, where he feared he would be tortured and persecuted: Read More >>
July 23, 2010 - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to the Algerian government’s denial that it is detaining Abdul Aziz Naji: Read More >>
Letter to the Editor from Laura Raymond, CCR: "Contracting is out of control and the outsourcing of war must be phased out-- quickly."
The Humanitarian Law Project case demonstrates that even former President Jimmy Carter could be subject to criminal prosecution under the Patriot Act for his work in assisting the monitoring of fair elections in Lebanon.
The United States said on Monday it had transferred two men held at its military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for nearly 8 years to Algeria and Cape Verde, and rights groups said the…
The Stewart case is meant to intimidate attorneys who defend controversial clients.
New York City’s police force, in its fight against crime, has increasingly used a strategy known as “stop, question and frisk,” which allows officers to stop someone based on a reasonable suspicion of crime. One…
CCR filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Vulcan
Society and three individual African-American firefighter applicants, charging
the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) with racially discriminatory hiring
practices. This WBAI program discusses the Vulcans.
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Australia has been put forward as an eventual permanent home for the six Chinese Muslim Uighurs who have arrived in the Pacific Island nation of Palau, after seven years in detention at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The six men accepted the offer to relocate to Palau, after the US asked the government there if it was prepared to accept some, or all of the Uighers it was holding at Guantanamo. But the resettlement offer for the six men is only temporary, until they can find a permanent home, preferably a country with an established Uighur community. Both the lawyers representing the former detainees, and the President of Palau, want Australia to consider taking the men. But as Pacific Correspondent Campbell Cooney reports, any country offering sanctuary is likely to incur the wrath of China, which considers the Guantanamo Uighurs as terrorists.
Presenter: Pacific Correspondent Campbell Cooney Speaker: Palau's President Johnson Toribiong; Andrew Bartlett, a former Australian Democrats Senator, now a Research Fellow in Immigration Law at the Australian National University; Lawyer representing three of the Uighurs in Palau, Michael Stenhell
From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation website:
Tue Nov 3, 2009 5:43pm AEDT
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