A USA Today/Gallup poll in February found that 62 percent of Americans favor a criminal investigation or an independent panel to look into the use of torture, illegal wiretapping, and other alleged...
BERLIN, Feb. 26 -- A United Nations special investigator has concluded in a report scheduled for release Friday that foreign intelligence agents sent to question U.S.-held terrorism suspects at...
On Capitol Hill, debate has begun over forming a truth commission to shed light on the Bush administration’s secret polices on detention, interrogation and domestic spying. A hearing on the issue was...
The Pentagon’s report yesterday that the conditions at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp meet all the requirements of the Geneva Conventions, was, not surprisingly, met with a mixture of skepticism and...
Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the U.S. government. Mohamed was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004 and...
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Pentagon documents released by rights groups Thursday detailed the agency's involvement in "war on terror" excesses, fueling debate over possible probes into the...
When Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) yesterday proposed to an audience at Georgetown University the creation of a “truth and reconciliation commission” to investigate Bush administration lawbreaking, he...
7pm Reception to follow in the Hotung lobby. Sponsored by Witness Against Torture's 100 Days Campaign. Co-sponsored by Georgetown Law School’s Amnesty International Chapter.
5pm Join CCR Staff Attorney and Managing Attorney of the Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative, Shane Kadidal for a discussion of Guantanamo litigation and the path forward to restoration of the...
An Evening with Pardiss Kebriaei of the Center for Constitutional Rights 7pm Reception to follow in the auditorium lobby. Sponsored by Witness Against' Torture's 100 Days Campaign .
