Center for Constitutional Rights Issues Statement in Response to Intensified Attacks Against Al-Haq March 7, 2016, New York – In response to reports from our allies at the Palestinian human rights...
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will participate on a panel, Human Rights After Trump: Survival and Resistance , at this year’s International Law Weekend (ILW), presented by the American Branch of the...
Updated: September 5, 2017
February 2008Article that details the initial attempt by US Military prosecutors to charge and convict Guantanamo Bay detainees for their alleged connections to the 9-11 attacks.
A judge threw a "unique and extraordinary" lawsuit out of court Tuesday, leaving open the question of whether the U.S. government can legally target American citizens for death abroad...
August 2007Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees' alleged that U.S. violated its own rules in the Combatant Status Review Tribunals after it labeled hundreds of prisoners as enemy combatants.
April 2010Syed "Farhad" Hashmi pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to provide material support to al Qaeda, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced.
July 2012Two civil rights groups sued the CIA director, the defense secretary and two military commanders over two covert U.S. strikes that killed three Americans in Yemen last year.
Majid Khan
Majid Khan was sent to Guantánamo Bay in September 2006, at the age of 26. A citizen of Pakistan, he has long had political asylum status in the United States and other substantial ties to this country. He grew up outside of Baltimore, Maryland, graduated from Owings Mills High School, and lived and worked in the area. He is married and has a young daughter he has never met. Several of his other family members are U.S. citizens and still live near Baltimore.
In March 2003, Khan was captured, forcibly disappeared, and tortured by U.S. officials at overseas “black sites” operated by the CIA. His torture is described at length in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the CIA’s post-9/11 detention and interrogation program, key findings of which were released on December 9, 2014. Khan’s own account of his torture remains classified.
Notes of some of Khan’s personal recollections of his experience in secret detention were declassified by the government in May 2015, but other details of his torture remain classified. On June 2, 2015, Reuters published unclassified information detailing the CIA’s torture of Khan. In June 2016, in response to a FOIA lawsuit, the government made public a declassified version of Khan’s 2007 CSRT transcript, which contains more information about his time in custody.
This submission is on behalf of the Immigrant Defense Project’s (IDP’s) Surveillance Tech and Immigration Policing project and the Center for Constitutional Rights, in response to the Office of High...
Updated: March 3, 2022
Sadaf Doost is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on supporting the Afghan people in the wake of the Taliban takeover, defending Palestine liberation...
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