The Supreme Court today revived a lawsuit by four British Muslims who say they were tortured and abused at the Guantanamo Bay prison and seek to hold top Pentagon officials responsible. The suit was...
In his recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared that the US would complete its military mission in Afghanistan by the end of this year and "America's longest war will...
The lawyer representing Tariq Ba Odah, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who began a hunger strike in 2007, said Friday that his client had lost more than half of his...
President Barack Obama released his long-awaited plan for closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying he doesn't want the next U.S. president -- no matter who it is -- to have to keep...
Retired senior military officers and human rights advocates are reacting with disgust at Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s description of the Geneva Conventions as a “problem” for...
Sparing four men from indefinite detention under his successor, now-former President Barack Obama nonetheless failed to fulfill the promise from the first day of his tenure to close Guantanamo Bay’s...
October 12, 2011, Paris, France – Today, Robert Meeropol, Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, outspoken opponent of the death penalty, and the younger son of Ethel and Julius...
July 27, 2010, New York – On July 30, 2010 the Organization of American States’ High-Level Commission on Honduras is expected to make recommendations to the OAS member states with regards...
August 14, 2015, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba – Today, the Obama administration filed under seal its response to a Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) motion seeking the immediate release from Guantánamo...
November 10, 2009, Cambridge, MA – The U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida ruled yesterday that the claims for crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killings could move...
