...The idea was that if the detainees were not on U.S. soil, they would have no legal right to seek a judge’s order of habeas corpus. That principle is a centuries-old protection against unlawful...
February 5, 2009, Strasbourg, New York, Paris, London – Yesterday, the European parliament passed a cross-party resolution by overwhelming majority calling for European Union member states to accept...
We’re on the brink of a full-throttled return to officially sanctioned US torture. Our impulsive president has said he wants to bring back waterboarding “and a hell of a lot worse” and has now named...
... The appeal (pdf), filed by Reprieve and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), said the decision by the "court of last resort" was "devastating" for the six victims, as it left them unable "...
...Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Angelo Guisado, staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, which along with the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center have mounted a legal...
... Diala Shamas, a staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, echoed that point, telling The Intercept Sunday that "anyone familiar with the scope of surveillance and targeting of...
...Sister Dianna Ortiz, who campaigned with tremendous courage after her escape to expose what the U.S. was doing to the—the people of Guatemala, she and other survivors and families of victims...
... Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights, for example, spoke of an incident in September when one of his clients was hospitalized, telling the IACHR that the authorities “have no long-...
...In response to Bakhouch’s ongoing detention, the Center for Constitutional Rights published an open letter, signed by representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty...
November 6, 2017, New York – In response to the jury finding NYPD Officer Wayne Isaacs not guilty of murder for killing unarmed Delrawn Small in Brooklyn on July 4, 2016, the Center for...
