October 15, 2015Lawyers for a Guantanamo Bay detainee whose weight has dropped to 74 pounds (33.4-kg) during his long hunger strike argued in U.S. court on Thursday he should be freed for health reasons, and a judge...
November 28, 2017The idea of incinerating artwork made by wartime captives at Guantánamo Bay has stirred such alarm that the U.S. military is now discussing keeping and cataloging detainee art rather than burning it...
February 25, 2024...“In the history of U.S. terrorism law, Palestine is the elephant in the room,” said Darryl Li, an anthropologist and legal scholar at the University of Chicago and author of the report. The legal...
Update: shortly after the Center for Constitutional Rights filed the lawsuit on behalf of Tufaic, the U.S. State Department gave his wife, Alshaibah, a visa. The family was reunited in November 2019...
Updated: January 24, 2020
January 20, 2022In the name of our clients still there, we call on President Biden to fulfill his pledge to shut it down
Virginia jury last year held CACI liable for torture and awarded damages to Iraqi plaintiffs March 12, 2026, Richmond, VA – The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a historic verdict against...
June 2, 2015A detainee currently held at the US military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba told his lawyers he was subject to forms of "enhanced interrogation techniques" beyond what was disclosed in a US...
On August 19, 2021, the Cameroon American Council, #CameroonTPS Coalition, and the Center for Constitutional Rights sent a letter to women members of Congress urging them to support a designation of...
Updated: August 26, 2021
May 11, 2016Michael Ratner, the civil and human rights attorney who represented Julian Assange and WikiLeaks in the US, died Wednesday at age 72, leaving behind an outsized legacy of advocacy for whistleblowers...
November 9, 2018A lawsuit filed today in federal court in San Francisco challenges an executive order issued today by President Donald Trump allowing migrants to seek asylum in the U.S. only if they enter lawfully...
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