A year ago, hopes ran high that a newly -elected President Obama would undo the shameful legacy of the Bush Administration - - a legacy that includes torture, preventative detention, and rendition...
February 3, 2010, New York – Lawyers for two Uighur brothers imprisoned by the U.S. Government at Guantánamo Bay since 2002 announced today that the men would soon be living free in the...
Counter-terrorism in the Age of Obama: Speaker Series The Center for Constitutional Rights International Human Rights Attorney Katherine Gallagher will participate in a litigation panel focusing on...
February 1, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) asked the United States Supreme Court to take up the case of Canadian citizen Maher Arar against U.S. officials...
January 29, 2010, Brussels and New York – At the start of the E.U.-U.S. Consultations on Human Rights, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Center for Constitutional...
The full panel was as follows: Steven E. Fineman, Managing Partner, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP; Brad N. Friedman, Partner, Milberg LLP; Faith E. Gay, Partner, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart...
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...
