November 2009Judges of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 7-4 to uphold a decision by a lower court judge dismissing a lawsuit brought by Maher Arar, a Syrian-born man who was detained in 2002 and sent...
October 21, 2016A federal court of appels on Friday reinstated a case brought by four Iraqis who allege they were tortured by employees of CACI while they were held at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq...
August 2008A federal appeals court in New York will take the unusual step of rehearing Maher Arar's case which it decided in June. Mr. Arar is a CCR client who was detained at Kennedy Airport in 2002, flown to...
November 2008The U.N.'s torture investigator said Thursday that European countries should take in those Guantanamo inmates who cannot be sent home when the U.S.-run prison closes...
Len Kamdang is the Director of the Criminal Justice Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where he leads national efforts to combat systemic injustices in the criminal legal...
March 13, 2020... This is part of what has been called the “CIA torture programme” – a significant element of the US’ fight against terrorism. This is so big, that we cannot get into details here. But FIDH, the...
November 2008President-elect Obama should be applauded for reiterating his promise to close the prison camp at Guantánamo. It has been a national embarrassment and a symbol of everything the Bush administration...
This online panel discussion is part of “ The Normalizing Gaze: Surveillance from Drones to Phones ,” a biweekly online speaker series from July–October 2021. In conjunction with...
Updated: September 28, 2021
August 15, 2019...Maria LaHood, deputy legal director at The Centre for Constitutional Rights, which represented the students, said: “the students’ support for Palestinian rights and their demand to freely express...
April 2008The attorneys for Salim Hamdan filed a brief in his military commission asking the judge to declare that Hamdan had been subjected to "abusive interrogation techniques," ie., torture. The...
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