...Fifteen immigrants detained — or previously detained — at the Bergen County Jail filed a complaint this month with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, alleging abuse, medical neglect, sexual...
...CACI has strongly denied that any of its employees engaged in or sanctioned torture. And the three inmates who filed the suit, with the assistance of the New York-based Center for Constitutional...
Officials representing the Holy See will for the first time face questioning by a U.N. committee on the Vatican's child-sex-abuse record. Pope Francis has won over many critics in his brief time as...
December 1, 2010, New York - Today, CCR sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders to ask her to investigate the case of the shack...
March 31, 2008, New York – The U.S. government referred capital military commission charges today against Ahmad Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian man who was transferred to Guantánamo from...
Still suffering effects of CIA abuse, Guled Duran is one of many stranded at Gitmo due to inaction by courts, Biden admin November 7, 2022, Washington, D.C. – A Somali man held without charge at...
With the signing of yesterday's executive orders to close Guantanamo and end torture, we are finally seeing the beginning of a reversal of some of the nastiest inhuman practices of the Bush...
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the City of New York to remedy years of discriminatory hiring in the Fire Department by giving hundreds of black and Latino applicants jobs, along with years of...
April 5, 2013, New York – This afternoon, activist Daniel McGowan was released from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where he was taken into custody yesterday from the halfway...