In the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which the United States ratified in 1994, torture is defined as "any act by which...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Retribution“swift and crushing” at Orange County Jail after speaking out against brutality, racist abuse, medical neglect April 4, 2023, New York – Federal and local officials waged a “far-reaching”...
December 5, 2013, New York – Today, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that it has transferred the Center for Constitutional Rights’ client Djamel Ameziane from Guantanamo to...
DATE: 2009-07-24 00:23:00 SOURCE: Embassy Tegucigalpa CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL HEADER INFORMATON VZCZCXYZ0000 OO RUEHWEB DE RUEHTG #0645/01 2050023 ZNY CCCCC ZZH O 240023Z JUL 09 FM AMEMBASSY...
Updated: December 17, 2010
***Free and Open to the Public- 7 p.m. Jamil Dakwar is Director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program (HRP) Rebecca Vilkomerson is Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace Alia Malek is a civil...
Updated: February 14, 2011
April 24, 2009 Washington, D.C. – In a suit brought by British men imprisoned for two years at Guantanamo, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today reaffirmed its previous ruling that Guantanamo...
New Letter from Formosa Plastics Denies Access to Burial Grounds of Enslaved People May 22, 2020, St. James, LA — St. James residents today re-asserted their rights to visit burial grounds on...
February 23, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released a report on the current conditions in Camps 5, 6, and Echo following the press conference today of Adm. Patrick M...
August 2010By CHARLIE SAVAGE WASHINGTON — A group of human rights lawyers want to stop the Obama administration from authorizing the military and the C.I.A. to kill the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-...
March 30, 2016Out of the nearly 800 people who have been imprisoned at Guantánamo over the last fourteen years, only 8 have been convicted of a crime—that’s just 1%. Yet, Republicans, eager to keep the prison open...
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