NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr. has been fighting for more than 13 years to make his late father's prediction come true. It will happen this month when relatives of victims of the Nigerian...
A new federal lawsuit seeks to force the U.S. government to make public “extremely disturbing” videotapes of a Saudi national, Mohammed al-Qahtani, whose abuse at the Guantanamo Bay...
"New York City police unions protesting the city's agreement to settle lawsuits on stop-and-frisk practices waited too long before trying to insert themselves into the high-profile litigation,...
In a blistering opinion Tuesday, a federal appeals court revived a lawsuit challenging extensive surveillance the New York Police Department conducted of Muslims in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001...
President Obama is a prisoner of the Guantanamo prison. Unveiling a new plan to close it, he elicited modest attention Tuesday. Political media are immersed in the campaign to find his successor,...
On Wednesday, the trailblazing attorney Michael Ratner died at the age of 72. In recent years, Ratner served as the chief attorney for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and became a leading critic of...
It was September 2001, two weeks after 19 Muslim hijackers carried out the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history. Federal authorities never found any connection between Abbasi, a 28-year-old yellow...
We’re on the brink of a full-throttled return to officially sanctioned US torture. Our impulsive president has said he wants to bring back waterboarding “and a hell of a lot worse” and has now named...
Several immigrants' rights groups allege harassment and one man says he was strip-searched by Customs and Border Protection agents. The Southern Poverty Law Center, the Center for Constitutional...
This week we are joined by Vince Warren, director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who talks to us about how the government is spying on Black Lives Matter protesters, how after 9/11 they...
