On International Human Rights Day, join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon for a roundtable discussion on the closure of Guantanamo. He will be joinned by Elizabeth Abi-Mershed and Emilio Alvarez...
Updated: December 10, 2015
December 3, 2015KCRW Morning Edition The FBI and other agencies are monitoring hundreds of Americans suspected of sympathizing with the Islamic State. Fifty-six have been arrested this year alone for sympathizing...
In the final debate before Tuesday’s primary in New Hampshire, Republican presidential contenders battled it out Saturday night at...
Updated: February 8, 2016
April 29, 2016In recent weeks, governors , mayors , major businesses , and entertainers have joined a boycott of North Carolina and Mississippi as a way of protesting new state laws that license discrimination...
May 11, 2016T welve years ago American citizens and the rest of the world were rocked by the graphic photographs of the sexual and physical torture at Abu Ghraib. Once seen, the images are impossible to forget:...
May 15, 2016As Barack Obama looks to the end of his tenure as president and commander-in-chief, the prison camp he inherited at Guantánamo Bay remains one of his most frustrating challenges. He promised to close...
June 22, 2016Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say...
March 7, 2017...Noor Zafar, a lawyer with expertise in abusive immigration practices at the Centre for Constitutional Rights, New York, said the new executive order "is still a ban designed to keep Muslims out of...
January 11, 2018Guantanamo’s symbolism has shifted fundamentally over the three presidential administrations that it has been used as an island prison. It’s worth reconsidering that history—and what it means in the...
May 8, 2019...Angelo Guisado, a New York-based civil rights attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said conservative people and communities tend to conflate the idea of security with the idea of...
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