From the stylings of Grand Master Flash to Public Enemy, Hip Hop has a long tradition of being used as a form a political speech and resistance. On Thursday August 21 st the Bertha Justice Institute...
Updated: August 13, 2014
November 2007About a quarter of the detainees who were cleared to leave the Guantanamo Bay prison after hearings in 2005 and 2006 remain in custody, raising questions among inmates and their lawyers about the...
October 22, 2016In a major rebuke to post-9/11 Bush-era legal arguments regarding torture, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled Friday that “even the president” doesn’t have the legal capability to...
August 2, 2016Last week, CCR learned that Engine 234 in Crown Heights, the fire company of Paul Washington, former President of the Vulcan Society , the fraternal organization of Black firefighters in the FDNY, a...
September 2008"Torture does not begin in some remote, dark, subterranean cell, where prisoners are hooded and interrogators are masked. Torture emerges from fear clouding vision and it begins on paper, with...
On November 21, 2016, CCR joined a coalition letter to President Obama urging him to take action to rescind the National Security Exit-Entry Registration System (NSEERS) regulatory framework...
Updated: December 21, 2016
March 2009In a rare victory for torture victims, a federal judge yesterday ruled that detainees who claim they were tortured at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq can move ahead with their lawsuit against...
October 21, 2016A lawsuit into a military contractor for their role in the torture at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib, was reinstated Friday, with the court rejecting arguments from the contractors that its behavior...
Still suffering effects of CIA abuse, Guled Duran is one of many stranded at Gitmo due to inaction by courts, Biden admin November 7, 2022, Washington, D.C. – A Somali man held without charge at...
March 5, 2018Last week, we went to court with ArchCity Defenders and co-counsel to challenge St. Louis County’s unconstitutional "Wanted" system to certify a plaintiff class of thousands of people who’ve been...
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