November 5, 2021...The abuses, which spanned three years after Khan was detained in Karachi in 2003, included being waterboarded, hung naked from a ceiling beam, starved, and being physically and sexually assaulted...
**Español abajo** Joined by Immigrant Rights Groups, Women in Sanctuary Seek to Hold Federal Immigration Officials Accountable Under Religious Freedom Restoration Act, First and Eighth Amendments for...
Group That Led #Repeal50a Campaign to Enter Police Unions’ Lawsuit Aimed at Rolling Back 50-a Repeal and Re-Entrenching Police Secrecy August 25, 2020, New York – Today, a federal court ruled that...
November 5, 2021...The clemency letter provided a harsh critique of the legal framework and C.I.A. detention system that the Bush administration established after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the legacy of which...
In a decision cheered by human rights organizations and immigrant justice activists, the Supreme Court ruled in Benitez v. Mata (also known as Martinez v. Clark) on January 12, 2005 that the...
November 8, 2015The Pentagon is expected this week to unveil a plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and move terrorists to U.S. soil, suggesting prisons such as the Supermax in Colorado that houses...
June 3, 2022...JVP action is one of 65 civil society organizations that have endorsed the letter. Other supporters include American Friends Service Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Just Foreign...
CCR is proud to endorse the #NoMuslimBanEver campaign and help mobilize communities and allies in the weeks leading up to October 18, 2017, the date the latest iteration of Trump's travel ban will go...
Updated: October 13, 2017
February 15, 2017, New York – In advance of the Senate confirmation hearing scheduled tomorrow for David Friedman as United States Ambassador to Israel, and on the heels of Israeli Prime Minister...
February 2015A federal judge said Friday he would consider whether to dismiss a lawsuit against the military contractor alleged to have orchestrated torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq because of a...
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