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.
Article speaking to the Military's use of FBI and other military interrogators to obtain similar information from detainees to that extracted during sessions of "durress" by the CIA, in...
Discussion about the difficulties in defending detainees accused of terrorism in military tribunals when much of the information is classified and cannot be shared with those accused. Also highlights...
11 a.m.- 12:40 p.m. – Taxi to the Darkside, the Oscar-nominated (2008) documentary, an "in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay,...
Article discussing the pending case against six Guantanamo detainees, including CCR client Mohammed Al Qahtani, being charge for their alleged involvement in the 9-11 attacks. It highlights the issue...
Two unjustly accused Guantanamo detainees, Adel Hassan Hamad and Salim Mahmud Adam, sue the United States for compensation for their infringed rights. Article brings attention to the majority of...
Two unjustly accused Guantanamo detainees, Adel Hassan Hamad and Salim Mahmud Adam, sue the United States for compensation for their infringed rights. Article brings attention to the majority of...
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...
On Friday, January 18, the government made public a motion filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on behalf of Majid Khan, a former CIA ghost detainee now held at Guantanamo. The motion...
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...
January 11, 2008 – On the sixth anniversary of the imprisonment of detainees at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today dismissed...
