A federal class action lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement as cruel and unusual punishment.
Updated: November 15, 2024
February 2011A planned trip to Switzerland this week by George W. Bush was canceled after human rights activists called for demonstrations and threatened legal action over allegations that the former president...
October 2011CCR attorney Katherine Gallagher and plaintiff Murat Kurnaz speak with Democracy Now! about lawsuit seeking George W. Bush's arrest in Canada for torture. http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/20/...
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Updated: March 10, 2008
December 2008A bipartisan Senate report has accused former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials of being directly responsible for the abuse and torture of prisoners at...
The Ramapough Lenape Nation are descendants of the original people of the Ramapo Mountains, and many of them reside in the village of Mahwah. The Tribe owns a parcel of land in Mahwah which is a...
Updated: April 12, 2022
June 2, 2015The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency used a wider array of sexual abuse and other forms of torture than was disclosed in a Senate report last year, according to a Guantanamo Bay detainee turned...
February 2008Discussion about the difficulties in defending detainees accused of terrorism in military tribunals when much of the information is classified and cannot be shared with those accused. Also highlights...
June 2007Libyan Guantanamo detainee cleared for release or transfer, fears he will be tortured if U.S. officials transfer him to Libya.
October 24, 2011 - In light of last Thursday’s official apology from the Guatemalan government to the family of President Arbenz for the coup d’état and subsequent human rights...
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