The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Iraqi shooting victims' families charging U.S. private military contractor Blackwater with war crimes.
" A defense contractor that supplied interrogators to the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has again asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit seeking to hold the company responsible for abuses that...
In an extremely rare legal manoeuvre, the Obama administration has challenged a legal request to free a hunger-striking Guantánamo Bay detainee entirely in secret. US officials said the objection to...
California, which once led the nation in putting prisoners in solitary confinement, is poised to end the practice of decades-long isolation. Settlement talks took place Monday morning between lawyers...
I have been out of prison for 10 years, but my eight years in solitary confinement in the Pelican Bay Special Housing Unit still haunts me. It affected the very core of my being. The sensory...
Lawyers for a Guantanamo prisoner on hunger strike are challenging a military doctor’s assertion that he is clinically stable even though his weight has dropped to around 75 pounds (34 kilograms)...
In a stunning legal decision issued today , the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Muslim-Americans who had been subjected to blanket mass-surveillance by the NYPD Intelligence Division have...
The University of Illinois will spend over $2 million because of its handling of a social media situation that might have been avoidable. In July 2014, Steven Salaita, who was to begin a tenured $85,...
... "The president knows that Guantanamo is wrong, legally and morally," says Wells Dixon, senior attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, who has represented clients at Gitmo since 2005. "...
