October 22, 2021...As Common Dreams reported , civil rights attorneys earlier this year accused DHS of "crimes against humanity" before and during the so-called "death flights," in which Cameroonians and other...
November 23, 2015Palestinian human rights groups delivered new evidence of alleged Israeli war crimes to an international prosecutor Monday. The new evidence was handed to International Criminal Court (ICC)...
February 17, 2021...The idea was that if the detainees were not on U.S. soil, they would have no legal right to seek a judge’s order of habeas corpus. That principle is a centuries-old protection against unlawful...
September 13, 2016Mahmood Khan had no idea that his brother had succumbed to "this poison" of terrorism. When Majid Khan was arrested by Pakistani security forces in 2003, family members — many of whom still live in...
June 2, 2015A detainee currently held at the US military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba told his lawyers he was subject to forms of "enhanced interrogation techniques" beyond what was disclosed in a US...
Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing enters its third day today. On Wednesday Capitol Police arrested 73 people protesting Kavanaugh’s nomination. The protests began almost...
Updated: September 6, 2018
December 14, 2016...The nomination instantly provoked rebuke, with Baher Azmy, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, telling AlterNet, "It is chilling that someone who oversaw, defended and...
This event has been postponed; please check back for an updated time and location January 11, 2025, marks 23 years since the first group of Muslim men and boys captured in the “War on Terror...
Updated: January 9, 2025
December 1, 2021... Majid Khan in 2018. He was held for years in the C.I.A.’s overseas prison network. Credit... Center for Constitutional Rights, via Associated Press He anticipated no adverse impact on his career...
June 22, 2015"We're going to beat you up, son." "Son, we're going to take care of you. We are going to send you to a place you cannot imagine." Majid Khan's interrogators meant what they said. In newly...
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