April 2011More than a third of Guantanamo detainees since 2002 have been considered "high-risk," according to 79 individual military assessments obtained by the secrets-spilling organization...
June 2012President Barack Obama's key rallying message for re-election is "Forward"; as in his purported revival of the economy and promised expanding and fortifying of health care. But in response to those...
April 2014Baghdad’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison now stands empty. Its closure, prompted by fears that it could be overrun by Sunni insurgents, along with the transfer of its 2,400 prisoners, was announced last...
Ten years since harrowing pictures of detainees being tortured at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison surfaced, many survivors are still waiting for justice. One such lawsuit, Al Shimari v. CACI, is challenging...
Updated: July 7, 2014
February 2014"As Black History Month comes to a close, a federal judge last week dismissed a major civil rights lawsuit that affects millions of African-Americans. I joined as a plaintiff on Hassan et al. vs...
Vigil at the Supreme Court 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m . Join Witness Against Torture for a vigil in support of the human and constitutional rights of the men held at Guantanamo before and during the oral...
Updated: November 30, 2007
An Evening with Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights Hart Auditorium, located in the McDonough building at Georgetown Law campus 600 New...
Updated: March 17, 2009
June 2008The Supreme Court ruled in the Center for Constitutional Rights' case Boumediene v. Bush that foreign prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay may challenge their detention in front of a federal judge, going...
June 2009The new evidence from Guantanamo.
October 2008One month after the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program was disclosed by the New York Times in December 2005, we sued to put an end to it. In the two and a half years since then, an ACLU suit (...
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