October 2008One month after the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program was disclosed by the New York Times in December 2005, we sued to put an end to it. In the two and a half years since then, an ACLU suit (...
April 2009For years, the 600 men imprisoned at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan largely escaped public notice. While the detainees at Guantanamo Bay roused the ire of critics of the Bush administration...
October 17, 2015That 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...
June 26, 2008, New York – Late yesterday, a federal court judge ruled that the government did not have to disclose whether it was illegally spying on Guantanamo attorneys’ conversations. The judge...
October 22, 2014, New York – In response to today’s guilty verdicts against all four former Blackwater security guards charged in the 2007 killings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad,...
Cable 09MADRID440 View and download this entire cable here 09MADRID440 “Garzón Opens Second Investigation Into Alleged U.S. Torture of Terrorism Detainees.” Date of cable: May 5,...
Updated: December 18, 2010
July 6, 2015Tariq Ba Odah would be a slight man, even if he were willing to eat. His shoulders are barely wide enough to keep his orange prison uniform in place. His wrists are childlike and his hands delicate,...
July 13, 2017Abigail’s husband disappeared in May after he refused to let a Central Mexico drug cartel use his tractor-trailer to transport drugs. When she reported his disappearance to Mexico authorities, the...
December 29, 2017...This is the rebuilding of Jim Crow Nation: "We will not allow this to become the new normal," reads a statement put out by the Center for Constitutional Rights. "Whatever the courts say, the...
November 2008President-elect Obama should be applauded for reiterating his promise to close the prison camp at Guantánamo. It has been a national embarrassment and a symbol of everything the Bush administration...
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