May 2010The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a class action lawsuit against the NYPD on Wednesday, claiming that the department’s database of people it has stopped and frisked, but cleared of...
Vanessa, Lynn, Corin , and Jemma Redgrave make a very special appearance to read Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak , a collection of poems written by detainees held in the US detention...
Updated: November 28, 2007
August 2006The U.S. government filed a motion to dismiss a CCR lawsuit against the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program.
On July 8, 2014, Israel launched "Operation Protective Edge,” an intense bombing campaign and ground incursion against the occupied Palestinian territory’s Gaza Strip, the densely...
Updated: July 31, 2014
October 2014"The New York City Police Department is free to begin implementing reforms to its stop-and-frisk policy, following a federal court ruling Friday. ..." Read the full piece here .
May 2013President Obama’s speech Thursday was eagerly anticipated by those of us who have worked for years to challenge detentions at Guantanamo and targeted killings abroad. As much as we would like...
October 2014"A federal appeals panel on Friday rejected an effort by several police unions to intervene in two longstanding lawsuits challenging the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactics...
October 2014"New York City can move forward with a court-ordered overhaul of the police tactic known as stop and frisk after a federal appeals court Friday rejected an attempt by police unions to block the...
October 2014"(Reuters) - New York City can finally begin to implement court-ordered reforms to its controversial stop-and-frisk police tactic, after a U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected a last-ditch...
November 2009The federal government is paying $1.2 million to settle the cases of five Muslim immigrants who sued over their detention and treatment in a Brooklyn jail after 9/11, when hundreds of noncitizens...
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