February 8, 2021ICC affirms Palstinian statehood & self-determination In response to a decision issued by the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court last week, recognizing that the territory of...
January 2009America’s closest allies overseas never understood the Bush Administration’s obsession with torture. “It’s as if an old friend had a stroke and suddenly went delusional,” a British Tory politician...
Tariq Ba Odah was born in 1978 in the Shabwah district of Yemen where he lived until the age of one. He spent his adolescence and early adulthood in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, surrounded by his loving...
Updated: October 28, 2016
June 16, 2016A Saudi national accused of trying to take part in the September 11 attacks who has been repeatedly tortured gets a chance to plead his case in front of a Guantanamo parole-like board on Thursday...
June 13, 2011, Washington and New York – Today, nearly five years to the day after three men died at Guantánamo in June 2006 under still-unexplained circumstances, the Center for...
December 26, 2019...We participated in the hearing on behalf of several U.S. torture victims who, for nearly 15 years, have been seeking justice and accountability for serious harms they suffered on the territories...
Shocking new details have emerged about how the CIA tortured a former resident of Baltimore, Maryland, who has been in U.S. detention since 2003, first at a CIA black site, then at Guantánamo. Majid...
Updated: September 8, 2021
December 10, 2020, Washington, D.C. – Today, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously that American Muslims who were placed or kept on the No-Fly List in retaliation for refusing to spy on...
April 28, 2017Though it feels like it’s been an eternity already, tomorrow marks Donald Trump’s 100 th day in office. After his inauguration, he wasted no time trying to implement the bigoted, regressive, and...
Please join CCR and CUNY School of Law’s CLEAR Project for oral argument before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Tanvir v. Tanzin , our case challenging the FBI’s abuse of the government’s No-...
Updated: February 23, 2017
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