...The special prison units have become known as “Guantanamo North” for their historically high rates of Muslim prisoners — 70% when they opened, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, a...
...The lawyer for one long-held Yemeni prisoner said Friday that she was disappointed by the decision and concerned that her client, Sharqawi al-Hajj, 46, had not had access to anyone other than...
October 1, 2020, New York – In response to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s veto of legislative bill SB1064, which was critical in advancing the right to due process for incarcerated people, the...
... The legal battle started in 2013 when CLEAR , an advocacy initiative at the City University of New York (CUNY), sued the federal government on behalf of Tanvir. Soon after the Center for...
...Due to being placed on the no-fly list, some of the men were not able to see family members overseas for years. One was unable to visit his gravely ill grandmother, one was separated from his wife...
...The men reacted to the Supreme Court decision with relief. “It is a soaring feeling,” Tanvir said in a statement released by the Center for Constitutional Rights , which represented the three men...
...The men reacted to the Supreme Court decision with relief. “It is a soaring feeling,” Tanvir said in a statement released by the Center for Constitutional Rights , which represented the three men...
December 22, 2020, New York — The Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal put out the following statement in response to the New York appellate division's decision today in Awad v...
...“The felony murder concept is, if a death occurs during the commission of another felony, that is considered a form of murder that’s attributed to anybody who participated in the felony,...
...“The indictment of Mr. Assange threatens press freedom because much of the conduct described in the indictment is conduct that journalists engage in routinely — and that they must engage in in...