July 10, 2008, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement in response to a letter sent from members of Congress requesting Attorney General...
Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys, Gita Gutierrez and Shayana Kadidal, represented lawyers for Guantánamo detainees before Judge Hogan, who ordered government lawyers to speed up the process...
The judge handling the habeas appeals for more than 200 detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, ordered government lawyers to prioritize these cases after urging from the detainees' lawyers, including...
A US federal court will not be able to hear the case of Maher Arar, a client of the Center for Constitutional Rights who was sent to Syria by the US where he was tortured, after a federal appeals...
A US appeals court upheld the dismissal of the case of Maher Arar, a client of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Arar had been sent to Syria by the US where he was tortured, but the court would...
The lawsuit filed by Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was sent by the US to Syria and client of the Center for Constitutional Rights, was dismissed, despite his claims that he was deliberately...
Men formerly held at Abu Ghraib and represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed lawsuits against CACI and L-3, two US private security firms. You can access the full article here .
The Center for Constitutional Rights is hosting a panel at this year’s Netroots Nation 2008 Convention, held from July 17 to July 20, 2008 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. Netroots...
June 30, 2008, New York – Today, the majority in a federal Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against Center for Constitutional Rights client Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials for their role in...
Keynote Speaker: Thomas B. Wilner – Shearman & Sterling, LLP On June 12, 2008, the United States Supreme Court issued a historic decision affirming the rights of non-citizens held at Guantanamo...
