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,"...
Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon and co-counsel will be arguing a series of motions on behalf of Majid Khan in the Guantanamo military commissions. The motions...
Updated: November 13, 2019
July 8, 2021This is the late Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights speaking in 2006. Michael Ratner : “One of our hopes is, really, we believe, and we have believed for 30 years, that torturers...
December 1, 2021...When Israeli officials endeavored to present secret evidence of the supposed “terrorist” affiliations of the six organizations, they were utterly unable to do so. Israel’s action provoked outrage...
March 1, 2023...One of Mr. Khan’s first calls on that new phone was to the two New York City lawyers who had represented him longest and helped him navigate his path to freedom — J. Wells Dixon of the Center for...
August 3, 2023...The organizations draw attention to the dozens of environmental protesters arrested and charged with domestic terrorism in a letter to the department director, Alejandro Mayorkas. The charges have...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights on July 29 for a hearing in our lawsuit, Stanley v. Ivey , which challenges involuntary servitude in Alabama prisons. The Defendants, Governor Kay Ivey and...
Updated: June 14, 2024
August 2010by Dina Temple-Raston The father of the Internet's most famous radical cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, is planning to sue the U.S. government for including his son on a CIA target list. Nasser al-Awlaki...
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