Newly-Filed Evidence Bolsters Lawsuit Charging Illegal U.S. Practices Nov.14, 2017, Los Angeles – Today, an immigrant rights group, Los Angeles-based Al Otro Lado, and six asylum seekers filed a...
A long-awaited internal Justice Department report promises to shed some much-needed light on the relationship between the Justice Department lawyers who wrote the infamous "torture memos"...
Amid a news cycle crowded with reports about Republican fearmongering and the Obama Administration’s bureaucratic paralysis on closing Guantánamo, a local news article last week from Fort Wayne,...
On Friday, May 11, 2012, a federal appellate court ruled that private military contractors allegedly complicit in torture at Abu Ghraib aren’t immune from prosecution. In post 9/11 America,...
* With Shayana Kadidal, Betty Yu & Emma Cape This discussion will explore: 1) How the Bradley Manning case (and WikiLeaks) has impacted media, shifted editorial standards, particularly concerning...
7pm Reception to follow in the Hotung lobby. Sponsored by Witness Against Torture's 100 Days Campaign. Co-sponsored by Georgetown Law School’s Amnesty International Chapter.
August 19, 2008, New York, NY – A group of 52 local activists today announced a $2 million settlement in their lawsuit against the City of New York. The activists were illegally arrested on April 7,...
