September 6, 2016Ten years. It’s been exactly a decade since President George W. Bush announced on September 6, 2006 that 14 former CIA prisoners had been brought to Guantanamo. That was when we learned about the...
July 7, 2016The Supreme Court’s June 23, 2016, nine-word ruling in the case of US v. Texas is deeply disappointing. The 4-4 tied decision means that the Fifth Circuit’s preliminary injunction against President...
Ten years since harrowing pictures of detainees being tortured at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison surfaced, many survivors are still waiting for justice. One such lawsuit, Al Shimari v. CACI, is challenging...
Updated: July 7, 2014
July 8, 2021This is the late Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights speaking in 2006. Michael Ratner : “One of our hopes is, really, we believe, and we have believed for 30 years, that torturers...
October 8, 2023...Advocacy groups like the Center for Constitutional Rights , CAGE , and the OHCHR have long campaigned to free Mingazov from detention and prevent his repatriation to Russia. Since 2021 ,...
Ashley Diamond is a Black trans woman and prisoners’ rights activist from Rome, Georgia, whose landmark lawsuit challenging the cruel and unusual treatment of incarcerated trans people by the Georgia...
Updated: March 7, 2023
The Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled a hearing on December 7, 2021, to examine the situation at the Guantanamo Bay prison twenty years after its opening and the path toward closure. Statements...
Updated: December 7, 2021
October 2013"On Halloween this year, Toronto will host the man who operated from the “dark side” of U.S. policy. As vice-president of the United States, Dick Cheney was a key architect of a post...
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
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