A lawsuit against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for firing Professor Steven Salaita from a tenured position over his tweets critical of Israel’s summer 2014 attack on Gaza.
Updated: February 3, 2023
September 17, 2015When the detention facility at the U.S. Naval base in Guantánamo Bay opened in early 2002, I was a junior in high school. This week, nearly 14 years later, I’m making my first visit to the base as an...
September 16, 2015CCR's Pardiss Kebriaei and Omar Shakir spent this week at Guantánamo meeting with our clients. They give a live report back on their visits.
November 25, 2015This piece was originally published by the Electronic Intifada . When the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign dismissed my client , Professor Steven Salaita , from a tenured faculty position...
July 1, 2016“The U.S. government’s estimate of civilian casualties is misleading at best and, at worst, a distortion of the reality on the ground,” said Omar Shakir, a legal expert who has extensively studied...
August 15, 2016After over 14 years of detention in Guantánamo without charge, Zahir Hamdoun today earned his freedom, transferred along with 14 other men from US custody to the United Arab Emirates. Zahir, a Yemeni...