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.
A lawsuit filed Monday seeks to force the U.S. government to make public the videotapes of harsh interrogation carried out on Mohammed al-Qahtani. Lawyers for the Center for Constitutional Rights...
January 9, 2012, Washington, D.C. – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking public disclosure of video tapes of Mohammed al...
Five years after his release, and near the tenth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo Bay detention center, CCR client Murat Kurnaz, and author of “Five Years of My Life: An Innocent...
On January 11 it will have been a decade since the first of the men we once called “the worst of the worst” were brought to Guantánamo Bay. In the intervening years much has...
To mark the shameful 10th anniversary of indefinite detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo and to call for an end to all unjust detentions, we will be creating a human chain between...
Details below are for January 7th. Please click here for January 5th . Join peace activist and poet Dan Berrigan, CCR's Legal Director Baher Azmy, and other friends for an evening of poetry and song...
December 20, 2011, New York – Last night, attorneys for Iraqi torture victims abused in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison and other detention centers in Iraq challenged two private military...
New York, December 17, 2011— This morning, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), representing Julian Assange, publisher of the WikiLeaks media organization, appealed a military court...
WHEN : Thursday, January 19, 2012 @ 7:00pm WHERE: 518 Valencia: Eric Quesada Center for Culture & Politics , 518 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA WHO: Vincent Warren , Executive Director,...
WHEN: 7:30pm - 9:00pm Details below are for January 5th. Please click here for January 7th . WHEN: 7:30pm - 9:00pm January 2012 marks the shameful tenth anniversary of Guantánamo's opening...
