Civil-liberties groups filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the legality of the Obama administration's expansion of the U.S. fight against al Qaeda terrorists beyond Pakistan and Afghanistan.
A judge threw a "unique and extraordinary" lawsuit out of court Tuesday, leaving open the question of whether the U.S. government can legally target American citizens for death abroad...
October 2006The Institute for Policy Studies in D.C. gives New York's Center for Constitutional Rights and its client, Maher Arar, international human rights awards.
Conflict has become big business, and nations are paying mercenaries millions to be their boots on the ground. Trouble seeing the video? Watch on YouTube here .
Updated: September 8, 2021
July 2012Two civil rights groups sued the CIA director, the defense secretary and two military commanders over two covert U.S. strikes that killed three Americans in Yemen last year.
November 2009Maria LaHood, Maher Arar’s attorney and senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, speaks on Democracy Now about the federal court of appeals dismissal of Canadian citizen Maher...
September 2011The international tribunals at The Hague is being asked to investigate top Vatican officials over the global clerical sex abuse scandal, and victims say these offenses meet the legal definition of...
March 2008Article claiming that the detainees currently being held at Guantanamo and accused of war-crimes should be granted fair trials, despite the difficulties that Al Qahtani, one of the me charged, has...
February 2008Two unjustly accused Guantanamo detainees, Adel Hassan Hamad and Salim Mahmud Adam, sue the United States for compensation for their infringed rights. Article brings attention to the majority of...
February 2007Two unjustly accused Guantanamo detainees, Adel Hassan Hamad and Salim Mahmud Adam, sue the United States for compensation for their infringed rights. Article brings attention to the majority of...
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