The Institute for Policy Studies in D.C. gives New York's Center for Constitutional Rights and its client, Maher Arar, international human rights awards.
A federal appeals court yesterday threw out a decision that had barred Congress from withholding funds from ACORN, the activist group ruined by scandal and financial woes.
...Migrant Justice, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the ACLU of Vermont, and other plaintiffs claim the federal government is targeting activists nationwide. ... Read the full piece here.
Federal judge upholds President Bush's new terrorism law, which established military commissions to try enemy combatants and deny them the right to challenge their detention in U.S. federal courts
California's practice of isolating prison inmates it suspects of gang affiliations and keeping them that way for years is being challenged in federal court by a national civil rights group.
The Center for Constitutional Rights sees U.S. and international law violations in the recently released tape of Omar Khadr's interrogation in Guantanamo, Bay. You can access the full article here .
The Justice Department and the CIA announced yesterday that they have started a preliminary inquiry into the CIA's 2005 destruction of videotapes that depicted harsh interrogation of two terrorism...
US officials said Thursday an Algerian national who was held at Guantanamo and cleared of terror suspicious by a US judge more than a year ago was repatriated, despite his objections.
US lawyers battling against torture and other abuses at Guantánamo Bay are braced for George Bush issuing last-minute pardons to protect those in his administration most closely implicated...
While the leadership of the Democratic Party remains silent on Obama's refusal to hold torturers accountable, activists are demanding a special prosecutor and calling on Congress to impeach Jay Bybee...
