Mustafa al Shamiri spent most of his years at Guantánamo wrongly described as an al-Qaida trainer and facilitator, a captive of consequence, until his first parole-style hearing revealed an...
Democrats taking part in the House sit-in are pushing for votes to expand background checks for gun purchases and to curb the sale of weapons to people on government watchlists—a proposal strongly...
I was captured when I was in my 20s and brought to Guantanamo Bay in 2004, after more than two years in secret prisons. I have been imprisoned here without charges since then. I am now 43. I feel...
...Racial justice groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security to get access to something called the “Race Paper” that may provide clues to the surveillance of black activists. Why do we have...
This is a column about Israel’s appalling treatment of a Columbia University professor, Katherine Franke, detained for 14 hours at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv and then deported, but before I get...
Two civil rights groups are suing the NYPD for blocking requests for documents showing how the department enters New Yorkers into its gang database. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Center for...
..But even as it tells asylum-seekers they must go to a port of entry, the Trump administration has been turning them away from these very same ports for months, claiming that they are “at capacity...
... Cases like Sexual Minorities Uganda v. Scott Lively provide insight into the bitter history involving American evangelicals and the extreme homophobia they have helped cultivate in African...
This week we are joined by Vince Warren, director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who talks to us about how the government is spying on Black Lives Matter protesters, how after 9/11 they...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights has just launched the Open Records Project: FOIA for the Movement . The project is coordinated by Ian Head, senior legal worker at CCR, co-editor of the...
