January 2012Five years after his release, and near the tenth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo Bay detention center, CCR client Murat Kurnaz, and author of “Five Years of My Life: An Innocent...
Aya Saed is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she specializes in challenging unlawful detentions, counterterrorism practices, the criminalization of dissent, and...
November 8, 2019... Islamophobia, or anti-Muslim racism, and the parallel US-driven militarism in Muslim countries across the globe, have created a political and legal framework to alienate and stigmatize Muslim...
October 2, 2020... A “progressive” Jewish organization that calls attention to such issues, Bend the Arc fails to make the connection with Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, also genocide as defined by the Center...
December 22, 2010 - Last week, the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony from legal and free speech experts about the possible application of the Espionage Act to the recent publication of secret...
March 2015Photos of Iraqi prisoners tethered to dog leashes and electrical wires dominated the news when they emerged in 2003 and 2004. The abuse scandal centered at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad...
The U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has embodied many of the most notorious abuses in the U.S. War on Terrorism since it was established nearly 15 years ago. This panel discussion...
Updated: October 5, 2016
University of Maryland (UMD) Francis King Carey School of Law's Muslim Legal Society and Journal of Race, Religion, Gender, and Class presents: "Guantánamo North": Examining...
Updated: March 22, 2012
May 4, 2023...The groups claimed the discriminatory approvals violate constitutional rights enacted to end slavery and discrimination, and said the approvals "have intentionally caused a conscience-shocking...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei will participate in a conference organized by the Duke Divinity School, which will feature speakers from different areas of expertise discussing the...
Updated: October 12, 2017
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