Join us for a discussion panel as part of the launch of a joint report by Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) examining the United States’...
Updated: October 4, 2013
May 2014"On Monday and Tuesday, a United Nations committee in Geneva asked the Vatican very tough questions about its track record on preventing and punishing acts of torture and cruel, inhuman and...
March 31, 2011 - In 1976, 17-year-old Joelito Filártiga was abducted and later tortured to death by Americo Norberto Peña-Irala, the inspector general in the Department of Investigation...
April 3, 2010Today in New York City, the U.S. is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial.
Updated: April 5, 2010
THE 2013 REPORT In May 2013, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) undertook a fact-finding mission in California and Louisiana to evaluate the...
Updated: October 25, 2013
Solitary Confinement and Isolation in Federal Prisons: Cruel and Inhuman or Necessary? Albany Law School 80 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208 Rochester Moot Court Room Room 209 in the Main...
Updated: March 10, 2011
October 2013David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center . When Herman Wallace died Oct. 4 at age 71, he had been a free man for about 2½ days. Before that, he spent 41 years in solitary...
Archilla v. Witte is a federal lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on behalf of 18 medically vulnerable people currently held in ICE’s Etowah Detention Center in...
Updated: March 7, 2023
OSI Forum: Seeking Accountability for Torture—Photography as Evidence Location: OSI-New York Event Date(s): June 3, 2009 Event Time: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Speakers: Matthew Alexander , Chris Bartlett ,...
Updated: June 3, 2009
January 20, 2011, New York – Just before the first anniversary of President Obama’s failed deadline to close Guantanamo, the New York Times yesterday reported that the administration will...
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