That is the cruel and absurd world of Guantánamo, where Tariq Ba Odah , long cleared for release by every U.S. security agency, still languishes in a cell 13 years on, waiting for the State...
October 28, 2015, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights appealed a district court ruling in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) secretive...
Today, fourteen American activists with the grassroots group Witness Against Torture are holding a vigil outside Guantánamo prison in a gesture of solidarity with the dozens of Muslim men who remain...
In an effort to quell public uproar after the release of a video showing the murder of Laquan McDonald, a Black teenager who was shot 16 times by a police officer in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel...
Revolving Door: Former Head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Office, Now High-Level Official at Major Detention Contractor, Asks Court to Support Secrecy December 23, 2015, New York – In a Freedom of...
After nearly 13 years of U.S. wars in the region, the Middle East continues to experience increasing violence and political instability. Yet the news media has placed the domestic costs of war in the...
Yesterday morning, the New York Times editorial board took note of Obama Administration’s latest policy inconsistency: fighting in the Supreme Court this week to halt deportations of many...
AETA Denies Freedom of Speech and Due Process Say Attorneys May 9, 2016, Chicago – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenged the constitutionality of the federal Animal Enterprise...
Twelve years after horrific photos surfaced of U.S. soldiers torturing Iraqi civilians at Abu Ghraib prison, torture remains headline news. Disturbingly, the focus of this public conversation has...
May 12, 2016, Richmond, VA – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights is arguing that the well-established torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and a private military contractor’s role in that...
