June 2, 2015The CIA’s abuses under its “enhanced interrogations" program included practices beyond those known to the public, according to a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay who has turned into a cooperating...
June 18, 2015Claims that former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft approved harsh confinement conditions for immigrants who had no connection to terrorism but were detained following the Sept. 11 attacks because...
January 23, 2016... The Bush administration opened Guantanamo to create a prison that was beyond the reach of any law. They explicitly chose it so that the US Constitution and other law would not apply. In their...
May 12, 2016In the years following 9/11, Michael Ratner, who has died of cancer aged 72, emerged as one of America’s foremost human rights lawyers. He galvanised 500 US lawyers of various political persuasions...
December 5, 2017The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), on behalf of the environmental magazine, Earth First! Journal, asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the corporation behind the Dakota Access...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights for a hearing in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court regarding its investigation of crimes against humanity and war crimes...
Updated: November 25, 2019
January 7, 2021...The Center for Constitutional Rights had filed a civil suit against Rumsfeld and 23 other military and medical officials “for their role in the illegal detention, torture, inhumane conditions and...
February 17, 2021...The idea was that if the detainees were not on U.S. soil, they would have no legal right to seek a judge’s order of habeas corpus. That principle is a centuries-old protection against unlawful...
February 5, 2009, Strasbourg, New York, Paris, London – Yesterday, the European parliament passed a cross-party resolution by overwhelming majority calling for European Union member states to accept...
March 16, 2018We’re on the brink of a full-throttled return to officially sanctioned US torture. Our impulsive president has said he wants to bring back waterboarding “and a hell of a lot worse” and has now named...
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