There are 107 prisoners still being held, 48 have been cleared for release but they're not going anywhere anytime soon. Wells Dixon discusses. Trouble seeing the video? Watch it on aljazeera.com .
Updated: December 11, 2015
Murat%20Samantha%20Bee.jpg Years of lawyerless interrogation at Guantanamo Bay failed to connect Murat Kurnaz with terrorism, but Samantha Bee grills him just in case. Trouble seeing the video? Watch...
Updated: September 8, 2021
May 10, 2016It’s been thirteen years since interrogators and military police at Abu Ghraib prison tortured detainees, and twelve since the abuse, captured on film, was disclosed to the world. It’s been even...
May 11, 2016T welve years ago American citizens and the rest of the world were rocked by the graphic photographs of the sexual and physical torture at Abu Ghraib. Once seen, the images are impossible to forget:...
Michael Ratner, the president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, died today in New York City. For the past four decades he has been a leading champion of human and civil rights, from...
Updated: May 11, 2016
June 15, 2016Long before Mohammed al-Qahtani was suspected of planning to participate in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as the 20th hijacker, Saudi police found him naked in a garbage dumpster in Riyadh. In...
July 16, 2016As his 10th anniversary at Guantanamo Bay draws near, an al-Qaida plotter from Baltimore is at the center of a new plan that could help resolve the cases of the dozens of men still held at the...
“You could also ask what is art’s take on the destruction that is happening? What is its perspective? What does art say about what Iraq is going through? What will it look like? What will be its form...
Updated: September 19, 2016
October 21, 2016In a robust ruling in favor of Abu Ghraib detainees, an appellate court ruled Friday that torture is such a clear violation of the law that it is “beyond the power of even the president to declare...
October 22, 2016In a major rebuke to post-9/11 Bush-era legal arguments regarding torture, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled Friday that “even the president” doesn’t have the legal capability to...
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