While all our Gitmo work involves Habeas Corpus broadly, this is for content that DIRECTLY adresses habeas corpus, and the legislative warngling around it.
There are dozens of detainees at Guantánamo from “high-risk” countries where there is a potential danger of persecution or torture should they be forcibly returned. At least 20 of...
STRANDED AT GUANTÁNAMO: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS REGARDING INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION FOR GUANTÁNAMO PRISONERS WHO CANNOT BE SAFELY REPATRIATED NEED FOR HUMANITARIAN PROTECTION 1. How...
On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued an executive order which purported to establish military commissions to try those captured in the “War on Terror.” Under the order, the...
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) is a massive legislative assault on fundamental rights, including the right to habeas corpus – the right to challenge one’s detention in a court...
Habeas corpus, or the Great Writ, is the legal procedure that keeps the government from holding you indefinitely without showing cause. When you challenge your detention by filing a habeas corpus...
Gitanjali Gutierrez, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights who was the first habeas corpus lawyer to travel to Guantanamo, wrote this op-ed in The Washington Post on CCR client...
