Article discussing of Ahmed Ghalaini's indictment charges as allegedly helping to plan the US embassy bombing in Tanzania during 1998, and the details and problems of using military tribunals to hear...
Men formerly held at Abu Ghraib and represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed lawsuits against CACI and L-3, two US private security firms. You can access the full article here .
The CCR and other human rights lawyers filed a lawsuit against former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, accusing him of suppressing a 2003 riot which left over 60 people dead and hundreds...
Article covering the Ahmed Ghalaini indictment and delving into the rationale and implications for using miltary tribunals rather than the Federal court system. It also covers details of the Ghalaini...
This article focuses on a new CCR lawsuit against CACI and Titan that accuses CACI and Titan employees of torturing Iraqi civilians detained at Abu Ghraib prison five years ago. You can access the...
The CIA used a wider array of sexual abuse and other forms of torture than was disclosed in a Senate report last year, according to a Guantanamo Bay detainee turned government cooperating witness...
California will put an end to the practice of keeping prisoners in solitary confinement for decades because of gang affiliation, under a proposed legal settlement announced Tuesday. The settlement,...
W hen Palestinian-American professor Steven Salaita received the e-mail that he was being fired from a tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he was crushed. “Everything...
Muslims are duly noting New York City’s recent settlement of two high-profile civil rights lawsuits challenging the city’s police surveillance in North Jersey, but a similar suit in New Jersey will...
Pointing to government-friendly rulings on police illegal searches and seizures and Guantánamo detainee rights, some criminal justice reform advocates are greeting President Obama’s nomination of...
