An argument before the Supreme Court on October 1 in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum will have enormous significance. The case concerns the torture of Ogoni leaders in Nigeria, but at stake is the...
... “I‘m an ACLU card member,” she said, referring to the American Civil Liberties Union, a group that defendsFirst Amendment rights. “I stand by the rights of people who support BDS. Allow the...
The President of the legal nonprofit Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, has resumed calls for a formal prosecution of ex-Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld following revelations by...
...Abu Ghraib prison detainees can proceed with their 16-year lawsuit accusing defense contractor CACI Premier Tech. Inc. of aiding and abetting torture in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. CACI’s motions to...
August 18, 2022, New York – In response to Israel’s overnight military raids of the offices of several prominent Palestinian human rights organizations in Ramallah in the occupied Palestinian...
July 22, 2021 The Honorable Janet Yellen Secretary of the Treasury Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20220 Dear Secretary Yellen, We write to express our...
U.S. government officials have blocked the release of 116 pages of defense lawyers' notes detailing the torture that Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Zubaydah says he experienced in CIA custody, defense...
An Evening with Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights Hart Auditorium, located in the McDonough building at Georgetown Law campus 600 New...
The Justice Department and the CIA's internal watchdog unit yesterday began a joint preliminary inquiry into the spy agency's destruction of hundreds of hours of videotapes showing interrogations of...
As dignitaries and civil society gather in The Hague this week to mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Court stands poised to demonstrate its...
