In 2002, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen, was detained at a U.S. airport on his way home from a family trip. He was interrogated by U.S. officials about alleged links to al-Qaeda and was repeatedly...
Updated: November 5, 2010
November 2013"Guantánamo's military tribunals were not created to try crimes, but to hide them. This system was set up to ensure that the U.S. government's torture program would never face trial, and...
February 25, 2016Palestinian activist and torture survivor Rasmea Odeh today received a significant boost from the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which unanimously vacated her 2014 conviction of an immigration...
September 23, 2015Iraqis tortured and abused at the Abu Ghraib prison appealed the dismissal of their claims against contractors from CACI International, Inc. Over the past seven years, the civil tort case has wound...
August 15, 2023...The lawsuit was brought by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in 2008 on behalf of three former Abu Ghraib detainees, all Iraqis, who contend they were wrongly imprisoned...
Join Katherine Gallagher , senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, on Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. EST as she speaks on the California Lawyers Association...
Updated: August 10, 2020
On the 17th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International USA, Justice for Muslims Collective, the National Religious...
Updated: January 4, 2019
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January 11, 2018Today, the Guantanamo prison enters its 17 th year. 41 Muslim men still languish there, trapped in an ever-present reminder of their captors’ official experiment with torture. Five of them have long...
Everything can be used / except what is wasteful / (you will need / to remember this when you are accused of destruction). Audre Lorde, 1981, “ The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism ”...
Updated: January 31, 2022
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