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November 17, 2009, New York – Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed the first brief in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the first case to challenge a portion of the Patriot Act before the Supreme Court. Read More >>
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November 3, 2009 New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced that five men who had been living in New York and were ultimately deported won a $1.26 million settlement from the United States government in a… Read More >>
President Barack Obama confirms he will miss January deadline to close Guantanamo prison — partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees. With comment by Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the…
The anti-poverty group ACORN, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights, has filed a lawsuit against the US government that accuses Congress of punitively targeting the organization. In September, the Senate and the House voted…
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A Judicial remedy is denied to Maher Arar, victim of the US extraordinary rendition program.
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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