January 19, 2017laims by former detainees alleging racial and religious discrimination by officials at the highest levels of federal government ran into skepticism at U.S. Supreme Court oral argument Jan. 18 (...
November 8, 2019...Darius Charney, a lawyer for the plaintiffs in the litigation that curbed the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy , offered Chief Shea a three-item to-do list. To gain the trust of those...
CCR, AIUSA and WSLS filed FOIA requests with government agencies seeking the release of records related to the evaluations or authorizations of secret detention and transfer, policies and procedures...
Updated: April 19, 2019
SI OU PÈDI KAY OU NAN TRANBLEMANN TÈ A Men Kèk Dwa Ou Dwe Konnen Ou Genyen 1. Fòk yo bay moun ki pèdi kay yo mwayen pou yo jwenn manje, dlo, kote pou yo rete, rad,...
April 19, 2012, New York – Today, Occupy Wall Street protesters and civil and human rights attorneys filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request demanding that the NYPD disclose all...
June 2014One hundred and eight members of Congress submitted a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry last Wednesday urging the administration to take action on the ongoing human rights crisis in Honduras...
Updated: September 25, 2013
September 22, 2015Pope Francis is visiting the U.S. this week, including a stop at the United Nations in New York on Friday. He has been roundly praised for his pronouncements on climate change , economic inequality...
June 26, 2015I last saw Tariq Ba Odah in March, just one month after he completed the eighth year of an unbroken hunger strike in protest of his continued detention without charge at Guantánamo. Tariq’s lawyer,...
June 28, 2017Today marks the eighth anniversary of the coup d’etat in Honduras. On June 28, 2009, former President Manuel Zelaya, who was democratically elected and later embarked on a platform of progressive...
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