April 2014"Ten years ago, the world got its first glimpse of images that would forever tarnish the United States' reputation for how it conducts its wars. On April 28, 2004, a "60 Minutes"...
February 2009The Obama administration backed the Bush administration's arguments in a lawsuit involving the practice of seizing terror suspects abroad and sending them to third countries for questioning. The case...
Update: this hearing was previously scheduled for 11/9. This is the new date. Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Muslims for Just Futures, and allies in a solidarity call to support Urooj...
Updated: November 7, 2022
March 2009LONDON — A Spanish court has taken the first steps toward opening a criminal investigation into allegations that six former high-level Bush administration officials violated international law by...
December 2008The Supreme Court today revived a lawsuit by four British Muslims who say they were tortured and abused at the Guantanamo Bay prison and seek to hold top Pentagon officials responsible. The suit was...
February 2012Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses how the Alien Tort Statute often provides the only way for a victim of human rights abuses committed abroad to see...
May 2012Now fellow SHU inmates and I have joined together with the Center for Constitutional Rights in a federal lawsuit that challenges this treatment as unconstitutional. I understand I broke the law, and...
Keynote Speaker: Maria LaHood, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights Come hear Maria talk about Arar v. Ashcroft, the case against U.S. officials who rendered Canadian Muslim Maher...
Updated: September 3, 2008
July 24, 2019...But survivors of clergy sexual abuse have criticized what they regard as foot-dragging at the Vatican, and the UN has been open to their petitions. “Rape and torture are crimes around the entire...
June 2, 2021...The men who were isolated in the torturous Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU) for decades decided in 2011 to go on Hunger Strike after they had exhausted all other internal remedies to win...
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