Please join Senior Staff Attorney in our Guantanamo Global Justice Department Gita Gutierrez for an in-depth discussion on the current state of Guantanamo and what is left to be done. She will be...
It felt like an epic decision in June 2008 when a bitterly divided Supreme court decided that terrorism suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay had access to federal courts to challenge their confinement.
April 18, 2011, New York and Washington, D.C. – Today, the United States Supreme Court announced that it will not hear the Guantánamo detainee case Kiyemba v. Obama. The decision follows...
April 4, 2011, New York and Washington – Today, the Supreme Court announced it will not hear three of the Guantánamo detainee cases it had been asked to review and delayed a decision on...
April 1, 2011, New York and Washington – Today, the D. C. Court of Appeals heard arguments in the case of Nazul Gul and Adel Hamed, two former Guantánamo detainees whose habeas corpus...
Join us for an important debate and discussion: What: “U.S. Detention Policies a Decade After 9/11: Two Opposing Perspectives on Security.” Who: Pardiss Kebriaei (CCR attorney who has...
Brooklyn, March 11, 2011 – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court judge to reject the government’s efforts to halt a class action civil rights lawsuit on...
March 7, 2011, New York – In response to the Obama administration’s announcement today that it has ordered the Department of Defense to lift a stay on new charges in military commissions...
March 3, 2011, New York —Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents Guantánamo detainees and coordinates the work of hundreds of pro bono attorneys on legal...