February 2011The United Israel Appeal scrapped a plan to showcase former President George W. Bush at a Feb. 12 gala in Geneva amid reports that human rights groups were poised to protest and file a torture...
A district court judge declared an important provision of the USA Patriot Act unconstitutional because it is so vague that it “could be construed to include unequivocally pure speech and...
Federal appeals court weighs bid by California corrections department to remove oversight, end accountability May 18, 2023, San Diego – Today, a class of incarcerated people urged the Ninth Circuit...
Jennifer Hobbs is a lawyer and activist. Jen has been a social justice advocate and activist for over twenty years and, particularly, she is a long-term Palestinian solidarity activist having been...
Kayla Vinson (she/her) is a Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She is a member of the Southern Regional Office, and her work focuses on supporting liberatory movements and...
December 2008In response to Attorney General Mukasey's statements that Bush administration officials who approved the use of torture shouldn’t be prosecuted and needn’t be pardoned because they all reasonably...
May 11, 2017The day I learned of Michael Ratner’s passing, one year ago today, I had to travel to Richmond, Virginia to argue an appeal related to one of the Abu Ghraib torture suits CCR brought against an...
Article II: Torture and Extraordinary Rendition. Participants include Michael Ratner and Vincent Warren of the Center of Constitutional Rights, Jonathan Hafetz, journalist Tara McKelvey, Carol...
Updated: November 21, 2007
September 2007A Guantanamo detainee, Mohammed al-Qahtani, says he made false statements after being tortured.
February 2010Recently released secret C.I.A. documents reveal that members of Congress were aware that suspected terrorists were tortured.
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