October 11, 2019...According to the Transgender Law Center, 3.8% of Missouri’s total adult population, or about 180,000 individuals, identifies as LGBTQ. The law center, along with the Center for Constitutional...
“Supreme Court Not a Reliable Source of Justice” September 23, 2020, New York – In advance of Donald Trump’s nomination to fill the seat of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...
August 2, 2023... A federal judge has again refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by former Abu Ghraib inmates against a military contractor they accuse of being complicit in torture at the infamous Iraqi prison...
Bottom Line President Obama’s proposed plan is too little, too late. First, the president’s plan cannot achieve the fundamental goal of ending indefinite detention without trial because central to...
Updated: February 23, 2016
October 2008Montreal supporters of an an Algerian national who has been detained at Guantanamo Bay for nearly seven years without being charged are calling on Canada to take him in...
April 2010Syed "Farhad" Hashmi pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to provide material support to al Qaeda, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced.
December 2, 2022The documentary tells the story of the local movement and SNCC organizers who fought not just for voting rights but for Black Power
September 2, 2015New limits on solitary confinement in California prisons are a long-delayed but welcome step in the evolution of a system that only recently subjected inmates to a degree of abuse that approached...
July 9, 2014, New York – In response to news , reported today by Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept , that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on the Executive Director and co-...
February 18, 2014, New York – In response to recent revelations by Edward Snowden of the NSA’s global effort to surveil, intimidate and target WikiLeaks, its publisher Julian Assange, and...
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