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...
" Lines began forming around 6 a.m. on Friday for general spectator seats at today's oral argument in Obergefell v. Hodges , the case in which the Supreme Court is widely expected to uphold a...
Today marks the 1,000th day WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spent in political asylum inside Ecuador’s London embassy. For the first time, Swedish prosecutors have opened the door to Assange’s...
Originally filed without legal assistance by Pelican Bay prisoners, CCR joined Ashker v. Brown in 2012, and turned it into a class action challenging prolonged solitary confinement as a violation of...
Amid a spate of cancer diagnoses and deaths among colleagues who worked at Guantanamo Bay, a Navy reserves lawyer who worked on a war court case at the 45-square mile naval base in Cuba has lodged a...
The Justice Department on Friday sought a third extension for its response to a Guantanamo hunger striker’s lawsuit seeking release from detention while officials considered whether to stop fighting...
A coalition of Muslim groups can pursue a civil rights lawsuit that accuses New York City police of conducting secret surveillance of Muslims in New Jersey without suspicion of criminal activity, a U...
During his 19-year tenure on the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia, Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland established a mixed record on legal issues surrounding the post-Sept. 11...
State and European prison officials, academics, scientists, attorneys, released former inmates and others will gather in Pittsburgh this week to discuss prolonged solitary confinement in prison — as...
