January 20, 2011, New York – Just before the first anniversary of President Obama’s failed deadline to close Guantanamo, the New York Times yesterday reported that the administration will...
January 11, 2011, Washington, DC — As the prison at Guantánamo enters its 10th year, Amnesty International USA, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Witness Against Torture, September...
January 7, 2011, Madrid, Spain – Today, the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) asked a Spanish Judge to...
January 6, 2011, Miami, FL and Washington, D.C. – Today six civil and human rights groups filed an emergency petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), to halt the...
December 22, 2010 - Last week, the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony from legal and free speech experts about the possible application of the Espionage Act to the recent publication of secret...
December 17, 2010, Washington, DC– Attorneys are no longer required to seek permission from the government to provide uncompensated representation to individuals the government has placed on a...
The Obama administration remains committed to trying more terrorism suspects in civilian court even though a federal jury acquitted a Tanzanian of all but one charge in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings...
Senior Justice Department officials said Thursday that they remained committed to trying more terrorism suspects in U.S. civilian courts, despite a New York City jury decision that convicted a...
December 14, 2010, Madrid, Spain – Today, two leading human rights groups filed papers urging a Spanish judge to open a criminal investigation into the role of former Bush administration...
