March 7, 2022, New York – Mohammed al-Qahtani, held at Guantánamo since 2002, arrived in Saudi Arabia today, where he will receive psychiatric care for schizophrenia that was exacerbated by...
Attorneys Also Ask Judge to Decide Long-Pending Motions May 8, 2019, New York – Today, attorneys asked a New York State Supreme Court judge to allow a new student petitioner, sophomore Veer Shetty,...
Transgender Woman’s lawsuit sought to hold Georgia prison officials liable for failing to protect her from sexual assault, denying care January 19, 2023, Macon, GA – In response to Ms. Diamond’s...
Ashley Diamond is a Black, transgender woman and social justice and prisoners' rights activist whose landmark victory against the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) in 2016 made national...
Updated: January 19, 2023
July 2013"On Monday, 30,000 prisoners in the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison in California went on hunger strike to protest solitary confinement and security unit conditions -- risking...
January 5, 2018...This decision was condemned by more than 100 Fordham faculty members, as well as Ahmad Awad, who spearheaded the drive to launch an SJP club on campus. Awad, who graduated last year, is now the...
Defending the rights of detainees during COVID-19 As COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to rise, the pandemic is exposing and exacerbating stark systemic...
Updated: May 5, 2020
Defending the rights of detainees during COVID-19 As COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to rise, the pandemic is exposing and exacerbating stark systemic...
Updated: May 8, 2020
August 15, 2023...August 8, 2023, Washington, D.C. – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights , the Center for Constitutional Rights and Texas A&M Law School Immigrant Rights Clinic and Civil Rights Clinic filed a case...
March 18, 2013 - In response to President Obama’s remarks on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, a coalition of Iraqi human rights groups and U.S. veterans and service members issued the...
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