Noor Zafar is a Bertha Justice Fellow in the Guantanamo docket at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Noor earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as co-president of the Muslim...
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Updated: December 11, 2024
April 2014As the Obama administration continues rallying its allies to hold Russia to its international law obligations in Ukraine, the international community had an opportunity this week to turn the...
When Ashker v. Governor of California was filed as a class action in 2012, California held thousands of prisoners in solitary confinement, in Security Housing Units (SHU). Hundreds of these prisoners...
Updated: September 1, 2015
Today, the New York Times' top editorial was a strong rebuke to the Obama administration for forceably sending a man from Guantanamo to his native Algeria, where he feared he would be tortured and...
In March 2003, Center for Constitutional Rights client Majid Khan was captured, forcibly disappeared, and tortured by U.S. officials at overseas "black sites" operated by the CIA. He was brought to...
Updated: October 27, 2021
October 16, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
June 3, 2022...The discussion noted a recent increase in support by Americans for Palestinian rights. Activism favoring Palestinians has also grown. But as support grew, so did U.S. efforts to suppress such...
Sharqawi Al Hajj Cut Wrist While on Attorney Call September 10, 2019, Washington, D.C. – Today, a federal judge refused to order an independent medical evaluation of Sharqawi Al Hajj, a prisoner at...
January 7, 2010, New York and Washington DC – Congress should not prevent disclosure of its knowledge and oversight of the CIA’s use of rendition, secret detention, and torture, three...
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