January 2009America’s closest allies overseas never understood the Bush Administration’s obsession with torture. “It’s as if an old friend had a stroke and suddenly went delusional,” a British Tory politician...
Judge Erroneously Set Aside Jury Verdict of Liability, Lawyers Say November 19, 2019, Miami – Today, Indigenous Bolivian family members urgedthe Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate a...
June 16, 2016A Saudi national accused of trying to take part in the September 11 attacks who has been repeatedly tortured gets a chance to plead his case in front of a Guantanamo parole-like board on Thursday...
May 12, 2016In the years following 9/11, Michael Ratner, who has died of cancer aged 72, emerged as one of America’s foremost human rights lawyers. He galvanised 500 US lawyers of various political persuasions...
October 8, 2021... Moyn takes Ratner—the long-time president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) who died in 2016—to task for filing Rasul v. Bush to give people indefinitely detained at Guantánamo the...
June 14, 2010, New York – Today, following the announcement by the U.S. Supreme Court that it had refused to hear the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) case on behalf of Canadian citizen...
Procedures for Holding Men Under Strict Communications Restrictions Violate Due Process, Appeal Says April 7, 2021, Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers for men who had been imprisoned in secretive...
Shocking new details have emerged about how the CIA tortured a former resident of Baltimore, Maryland, who has been in U.S. detention since 2003, first at a CIA black site, then at Guantánamo. Majid...
Updated: September 8, 2021
August 4, 2023...Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria refused to dismiss the torture suit against CACI Premier Technology , a military-industrial...
On February 22, 2017, CCR, Palestine Legal, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation, the Maryland National Lawyers Guild, and the Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition...
Updated: October 12, 2017
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