While many of the interrogation methods employed are torture, this term is meant to carve out a space for "new" torture, this is such a big issue that simply lumping it with torture in general would muddy the waters.
CCR Attorney Shane Kadidal will participate in a panel briefing about the Humanitarian Law Project case at the Supreme Court. The event will take place on Feb. 17 at the National Press Club in...
Tuesday, February 2nd at 6:30pm, Elebash Recital Hall at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, Manhattan What is the role of the media in framing popular discourse around...
The panel will explore the current law and policy paradigms at play in regards to detaining unlawful combatants (and other terms de jour for those detained in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq), and...
Former US Solicitor General Gregory Garre (Latham & Watkins), Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vincent Warren , Seton Hall Professor Baher Azmy , and Cardozo's Vijay...
Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of President Obama’s announcement to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay. The Obama administration has already said it will miss the deadline, and CCR...
January 18, 2010, New York – An article published today in Harper’s Magazine by Scott Horton raises grave questions about the manner in which three prisoners died in Guantanamo in June...
January 11, 2010, Washington, D.C. – To mark the beginning of the ninth year of detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo today, activists and lawyers of detained men held a rally...
Eight years ago this Monday, the Guantánamo Bay Detention Center opened its doors to a dark chapter in American history under the Bush administration - one marked by torture, inhuman...
January 7, 2010, New York and Washington DC – Congress should not prevent disclosure of its knowledge and oversight of the CIA’s use of rendition, secret detention, and torture, three...
January 5, 2010, New York – In response to news that President Obama has decided to suspend all transfers of detainees from Guantánamo to Yemen, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
