July 30, 2018...The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) earlier said : Washington “consistently (doesn’t) recognize the protections afforded by the US Constitution and international law, and in doing so, it...
In Washington, D.C, on June 13, 2005, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that prison officials cannot confine inmates in long term solitary confinement in a supermaximum prison without...
Updated: October 23, 2013
September 14 th , 2010 11:00 am- 12:15 pm Constitution Day Speaker and Lunch Ballroom C Speaker: Sunita Patel, Staff Attorney [center for constitutional rights] Immigration, Human Rights, and the...
Updated: September 9, 2010
The full panel was as follows: Steven E. Fineman, Managing Partner, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP; Brad N. Friedman, Partner, Milberg LLP; Faith E. Gay, Partner, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart...
Updated: January 26, 2010
December 1, 2021... Day Two began with another panel discussion, ‘Guantánamo: The Future,’ featuring three lawyers who spoke compellingly about Guantánamo and the law: Shane Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional...
March 17, 2016I've now spent more than twenty-seven years in solitary confinement, aka Security Housing Units (SHU). My original six-year term started in 1984 and was eventually increased to twenty-one years to...
December 19, 2019...Already, federal district courts in New York, California, Washington state, Illinois and Maryland have issued injunctions blocking the Department of Homeland Security from enforcing its new rules...
March 26, 2016When a United States detention center is hundreds of miles off the coast, it can be difficult for Americans to imagine the plight of the people who have been held there for the past 15 years. The...
June 27, 2017- Ken Saro Wiwa was a Niger delta activist but fought actively for the emancipation of his Ogoni people in Rivers state - His campaign for the liberation of his people was unbearable to the then...
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