March 6, 2020...Katherine Gallagher, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, is representing two of the victims in the case, Sharqawi Al Hajj and Guled Hassan Duran. Both remain detained at...
August 7, 2020... “We are elated that the families who lost loved ones in the 2003 massacres have won this important victory,” said Beth Stephens, a cooperating attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights...
August 21, 2020...“We are elated that the families who lost loved ones in the 2003 massacres have won this important victory,” said Beth Stephens, a cooperating attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Michael Ratner devoted four decades of his life at the Center for Constitutional Rights as a staff attorney, legal director, and board president until his untimely death in 2016. We miss him...
Updated: June 2, 2021
July 22, 2021..."The more individuals who are cleared to be released, the easier it is to close Guantánamo, because the detainee population gets smaller and smaller every day." Yet the Justice Department is at...
October 7, 2021...In December, lawyers for the outgoing Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to take up the case. They said judges should defer to the government and should not second-guess the executive...
For the past two decades, human rights advocates in Afghanistan and abroad have called for all perpetrators of human rights abuses in the country to be held accountable. Yet the collapse of the...
Updated: March 30, 2022
July 26, 2023"A coalition of more than 60 major Christian, Jewish, Muslim and secular organizations in the United Stated have sent a letter to members of Congress urging them to support the Justice for Shireen...
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Updated: September 6, 2023
September 29, 2023...Former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and his defense minister, Jose Carlos Sánchez Berzain, on Thursday agreed to drop their appeals in a civil case where a jury found them...
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