Join CCR and Maysles Cinema for a screening and discussion of "Citizenfour" as part of an Oscar Buzz series. After the film, CCR Senior Staff Attorney Shane Kadidal will provide context...
Updated: February 3, 2015
June 8, 2009 - The Plaintiffs in the Wiwa v. Shell cases are pleased to announce a settlement of their claims. The settlement will provide $15.5 million to compensate the injuries to the Plaintiffs...
Amicus briefs in a case seeking civil liability from multinational corporations for their role aiding and abetting the South African apartheid regime.
Updated: February 26, 2024
July 22, 2021..."The more individuals who are cleared to be released, the easier it is to close Guantánamo, because the detainee population gets smaller and smaller every day." Yet the Justice Department is at...
December 2014"In the wake of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s landmark report on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, civil rights organizations are calling for those responsible to face immediate legal...
November 9, 2007, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued before the Court of Appeals that rendition victim Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials should be...
On October 28, 2021, Majid Khan read an unclassified personal statement during his sentencing hearing before a Guantánamo military commission. In his words, it is the story that he has been waiting...
Updated: February 2, 2023
There are 107 prisoners still being held, 48 have been cleared for release but they're not going anywhere anytime soon. Wells Dixon discusses. Trouble seeing the video? Watch it on aljazeera.com .
Updated: December 11, 2015
November 11, 2015After President Barack Obama agreed on Tuesday to sign a $607 billion "defense" bill that undermines his own plan to shutter the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, media outlets sounded the...
November 11, 2015After President Barack Obama agreed on Tuesday to sign a $607 billion "defense" bill that undermines his own plan to shutter the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, media outlets sounded the...
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