March 13, 2020... Katherine Gallagher, s enior s taff a ttorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and ICC V ictims L egal R epresentative, also welcomed the decision because it provides hope that justice is...
September 1, 2015Changes in solitary confinement procedures in California prisons are at the core of a legal settlement announced Tuesday. The agreement in federal court between the state and a group of inmates held...
October 10, 2017The Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow in Jesner v. Arab Bank ostensibly on the question of whether the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) applies to corporations. There is a risk, however, that the...
April 2008Article discussing the difficulty the Pentagon has been facing in expediting the military tribunals, from problems of obtaining lawyers to represent the detainees to figuring out how to mitigate the...
October 21, 2016A federal court of appels on Friday reinstated a case brought by four Iraqis who allege they were tortured by employees of CACI while they were held at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq...
An anticipated 1,000 people planned to march in Orlando, Florida on October 7, 2023 in support of transgender youth and other marginalized communities. But participants in this historic grassroots...
Updated: November 4, 2023
September 8, 2015"The military command at Guantánamo Bay has stopped honoring security clearances for attorneys representing the only detainee who has agreed to testify against the 9/11 defendants, the Guardian has...
April 22, 2016"When we were sentenced to death," wrote Carlos M. Argueta from death row in California, "we weren't sentenced to be mistreated, humiliated, discriminated against, psychologically tortured and kept...
February 11, 2019..."The US government has a legal obligation and a moral responsibility to follow up on men who are transferred out of long-term military custody, and to ensure that they aren't tortured or killed,"...
August 15, 2015The U.S. government is opposing the release of Guantanamo Bay detainee Tariq Ba Odah, who has been on a hunger strike for eight years and is among the 52 who have been cleared for release from the...
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