The U.S. government is still holding him at Guantánamo even though he completed his 10-year sentence on March 1.
A habeas corpus petition on behalf of the only Guantánamo detainee who the government has openly admitted was tortured.
Updated: April 4, 2022
In 2007, the CCR filed a lawsuit against the City of Pittsburgh and various City Police officers alleging that the Pittsburgh police unconstitutionally used TASERS against peaceful demonstrators at...
Updated: November 17, 2009
November 22, 2017Two years ago, a settlement in our case, Ashker vs. Governor of California , ended the practice of indefinite solitary confinement in California, resulting in the transfer of over 1,600 men into...
January 25, 2017On January 18, CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in CCR’s case, Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft ) . Filed against Bush administration...
Join CCR at the Brooklyn Public Library for a film screening of Herman's House and community conversation with Executive Director Vince Warren and others about the justice system in New York, in...
Updated: May 8, 2015
Updated: October 23, 2008
Vanessa, Lynn, Corin , and Jemma Redgrave make a very special appearance to read Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak , a collection of poems written by detainees held in the US detention...
Updated: November 28, 2007
November 3, 2021In a courtroom at Guantánamo, a CIA torture survivor tells his story
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