Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and our partners at War Resisters League for an evening of music, art and activism as we jointly launch " Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in...
Minimum occupancy quotas at immigrant detention facilities nationwide benefit for-profit prison operators by guaranteeing the government pays for thousands of detainees, regardless of whether those...
New Jersey Muslims who said they were illegally targeted by New York City police after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks should be allowed to argue their case in court, a panel of three federal...
Lawyers representing Guantánamo Bay detainees who have been held at the camp in Cuba for up to 14 years without charge or trial have accused President Obama of stalling on his promise to close the...
Law360, Washington (January 4, 2016, 9:30 PM ET) -- A Second Circuit panel on Monday blocked a suit, accusing high-level Bush administration officials of contributing to the abuse of immigrants...
Fourteen years ago on Monday, the first wave of detainees arrived at the notorious U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Seven years ago, President-elect Barack Obama promised that he would...
It was supposed to be a crucial part of Barack Obama’s plan to close Guantánamo Bay. But frustrated officials say the special review board designed to speed up the closure of the detention camp in...
Karim Bostan was forced to flee his village in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion and spent his formative years as a refugee in Pakistan. In the early 1990s, Bostan made his way back to his home...
... In the years since Yousry’s arrest and trial, the U.S. government has struggled to find competent Arabic-language translators. In sensitive legal cases, like the ongoing military-court hearings...
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether former high-ranking government officials can be sued for a "hold until cleared" policy intended to identify potential terrorists in the days after...
