The Military Commissions Act was prompted, in part, by the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2006 ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld which rejected the President’s creation of military commissions by...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Composite statement: Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed All three men come from Tipton in West Midlands, United Kingdom a poor area with a small community of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Groups seek information on possible collusion between SpaceX and local officials, targeting of environmental activist, and federal licensing process August 8, 2022, Brownsville, TX – Local activists...
September 22, 2017Thirteen years after leaving Abu Ghraib prison, and nine years after filing suit in federal court, a group of former Iraqi detainees got to make the case before a judge in Alexandria, Va., on Friday...
Please join Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, as he participates in this teach-in to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and its aftermath.
Updated: August 26, 2021
Join us on Tuesday, May 23, at 6:30 p.m. ET for the launch of The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated , a new book edited by Katie Redford and Mark Gevisser. In the book, 25 of the world’s...
Updated: May 18, 2023
January 11, 2024...S harqawi Al Hajj is a man detained at the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay , Cuba. I have been his lawyer for many years. This week marks 22 years since the prison was opened, and Sharqawi’s...
June 7, 2024...That lack of attention makes it easy to forget that more than two decades after its establishment as a detention camp for suspects in the War on Terror, 30 men are still being held at Guantánamo...
Judge To Make Final Decision to Grant Preliminary Injunction This Week (October 7, 2019, New York) – Immigrant rights groups appeared today in the United States District Court for the Southern...
September 21, 2012, New York – In response to the Department of Justice’s release today of the identities of 55 of the 86 Guantanamo prisoners who have been approved for transfer, Center...
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