A former prisoner at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from Australia on Wednesday won a legal challenge to his terrorism conviction before a military court. ... Read the full piece here.
This Symposium will bring together leading international and U.S. experts, including former military officials, academics, practitioners, human rights advocates, politicians, journalists, and...
"I wish to see him and hug him and sit next to him and hold his head in my arms and tell him that I love him." This week, Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon and Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain...
This post originally appeared on the Open Society Foundations website . “It is beyond the power of even the president to declare [torture] lawful,” wrote Judge Henry Floyd on October 21. These words...
To honor Black history is to celebrate Black futures and the radical imaginings of our ancestors. Generations of Black freedom fighters have put forward liberatory political, social, and economic...
New legal documents seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, George Tenet, and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers for their alleged role in abuses...
The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate the torture that Djamel Ameziane experianced while in US custody. You can...
His death, which would be the fifth prisoner suicide at the detention center, renews criticism of U.S. policy and calls for Obama to keep his promise to close the offshore prison.
The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal court Wednesday to force the Obama administration to release records related to the killing of U.S. citizens in drone attacks in Yemen last year.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit brought by four inmates of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison against civilian military military contractors, alleging they were tortured...
