While all our Gitmo work involves Habeas Corpus broadly, this is for content that DIRECTLY adresses habeas corpus, and the legislative warngling around it.
The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison who have each spent between 10 and 28 years in solitary...
* With Shayana Kadidal, Betty Yu & Emma Cape This discussion will explore: 1) How the Bradley Manning case (and WikiLeaks) has impacted media, shifted editorial standards, particularly concerning...
June 11, 2012, New York – Today, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari to the cases of seven Guantánamo detainees who had petitioned the Court for review of...
Four years ago tomorrow, the Supreme Court ruled that Guantanamo detainees have a right to challenge the legality of their detention in federal court. The case, Boumediene v. Bush, was at the time...
One of the greatest injustices at Guantanamo is that, of the 169 prisoners still held, over half -87 in total- were cleared for release by President Obama's interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force...
President Barack Obama's key rallying message for re-election is "Forward"; as in his purported revival of the economy and promised expanding and fortifying of health care. But in response to those...
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Department of Communication and Theater Arts presents In Our Name: A Play on the Torture Years. Following the opening performance on Wednesday, May...
CCR President Michael Ratner discusses Bradley Manning's April 24 hearing in one of the most important court martial cases in decades. The accused faces life in prison for the 22 charges against him...
In conjunction with the New York performance biennial Performa 11, MoMA’s Department of Media and Performance Art presents the live work Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954–...
