February 11, 2008, New York – Military commission charges were handed down that seek the death penalty against Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) client Mohammed al Qahtani. CCR issued the...
In 2002, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen, was detained at a U.S. airport on his way home from a family trip. He was interrogated by U.S. officials about alleged links to al-Qaeda and was repeatedly...
Vince Warren will discuss the work that he and the Center for Constitutional Rights has been conducting to promote and advance human rights, speciafically pertaining to Guantanamo detainees, CCR’s...
The Justice Department, which in 2002 gave the C.I.A. legal approval for waterboarding and other tough interrogation methods, is reviewing whether agency officials broke the law by destroying...
The Justice Department and the CIA announced yesterday that they have started a preliminary inquiry into the CIA's 2005 destruction of videotapes that depicted harsh interrogation of two terrorism...
January 11th marks the anniversary of when the U.S. opened its torture camp at Guantanamo. Bush claims “ the U.S. does not torture” as he orders the destruction of videotapes that document the C.I.A...
Friday, January 11, 2008 marks six years since the arrival of the first detainees at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Today, the detention camp remains a monumental symbol of torture,...
December 20, 2007, Washington, DC – This morning, Santa Claus (in the person of noted constitutional lawyer Bill Goodman) drove his sleigh to the White House to deliver thousands of copies of the U.S...
Northeastern University School of Law is pleased to announce the 2008 Daynard Public Interest Visiting Fellows: Michael Ratner and Christina DeConcini ’88. The Daynard Program brings two...
