COVID-19 Could Be “Death Sentence” Due to Unsafe Conditions April 17, 2020, Natchez, Mississippi – Seven medically vulnerable people currently held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the...
Many Remain in Grave Danger, Advocates Say April 30, 2020, Alexandria, Louisiana – A federal judge has recommended the release of 13 medically vulnerable people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
July 16, 2020, New York/Chicago — On Thursday, the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD) and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Freedom of...
July 31, 2020... Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights challenged the spying program on behalf of a diverse group of plaintiffs from throughout the state – ranging from a decorated Iraq war...
On Tuesday, September 1st we will be in court representing our Arizona partners, Black Lives Matter (BLM) Phoenix Metro, Mijente Support Committee, Puente Human Rights Movement, and the Arizona...
Updated: August 31, 2020
September 16, 2020...Al-Alaqi v. Panetta was a lawsuit filed in 2012 challenging the targeted drone killings by the United States of three U.S. citizens in Yemen. Although the U.S. government has carried out targeted...
On episode 31 of "The Activist Files," Staff Attorney Angelo Guisado and Senior Legal Worker Ian Head discuss two forthcoming Center for Constitutional Rights publications aimed at supporting...
Updated: October 28, 2020
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.
The Department of Homeland Security and FBI have warned for some time of ongoing domestic terrorism threats from right-wing radical extremist groups. The events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021...
Updated: February 18, 2021
Georgia prison officials refuse to protect Ashley Diamond despite repeated sexual assaults and sexual harassment February 23, 2022, Macon, GA– Ashley Diamond , a Black transgender woman held in a men...
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