President Obama, hoping to finally meet his 2008 campaign pledge, sent Congress a plan Tuesday to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and transfer up to 60 terrorism suspects to a yet unnamed U.S. prison...
Retired U.S. Army General Geoffrey Miller, the former commander of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, did not appear for questioning before a French court on Tuesday, after being subpoenaed last month...
A California animal rights activist who freed 2,000 minks from an Illinois fur farm in 2013 was sentenced on Wednesday to house arrest and ordered to pay $200,000 to the farm's owners, prosecutors...
...The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents him, called the hearing unfair and said it relied on information obtained through torture by the CIA. "He should not have been...
...Iliwat’s case reflects the broad latitude officials at the border have to deny entry to people, particularly Arabs and Muslims, said Diala Shamas, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional...
...As they await a response from Ottawa, the American lawyers who fought to get the Uyghurs released from Guantanamo say they’re perplexed at the initial Canadian decision. “With absolute certainty,...
...The ACLU joined the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Southern Poverty Law Center in filing the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The groups are demanding an...
... A new lawsuit filed in Manhattan challenges the Trump administration’s public charge rule , say it “was driven by unconstitutional animus against nonwhite immigrants ” and exceeded the authority...
...Given the trends, we can expect to hear more stories like Ronal’s — people whose lives are extinguished due to contemporary forms of tyranny or hate, the crush of the markets or the heating of the...
... Advocates say the timeline of events surrounding sanctuary leaders’ ongoing litigation against ICE illustrates the agency’s retaliatory use of fines. Austin Sanctuary Network, Free Migration...
