Ruling Affirms Injunction Temporarily Stayed by U.S. Supreme Court August 4, 2020, New York – Today,the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s October 2019 decision granting a...
The South Asian Bar Association presents an evening with CCR staff attorney Gitanjali Gutierrez. She will give a lecture entitled "American-Style Torture: Guantanamo, Black Sites and American...
Updated: April 9, 2008
February 27, 2019Breaking through a decade-long stalemate, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that survivors of torture at Abu Ghraib can take private military contractor CACI Premier Technology to trial in Virginia...
September 14, 2016Confessed al-Qaida foot soldier Majid Khan withdrew a legally clouded terror charge from his 2012 guilty plea Wednesday and invoked President Barack Obama’s attitude toward the CIA’s secret prison...
The Events Associate (EA) will provide logistical support and coordination for CCR programs and events. Working with Advocacy, Communications, Legal and Development teams, the EA is responsible for...
Updated: December 21, 2017
May 31, 2018The United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC). But that doesn’t mean that US officials can’t be held accountable for international crimes such as torture and war crimes...
March 2012Avi Dichter, the former Director of Israel’s General Security Service (GSS), has been sued in a United States court for his role in the Al-Daraj, Gaza bombing that killed fifteen people and injured...
November 2009A Canadian engineer who claims he was sent by the United States to Syria to be tortured in 2002 cannot sue U.S. officials in federal court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said...
Plaintiffs charged Nikola Vuckovic with war crimes; crimes against humanity; and torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA) and the Alien Tort...
Updated: September 27, 2012
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