The Bush Administration, through an amendment introduced by South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, has just successfully stripped federal courts of jurisdiction to hear applications for habeas corpus...
June 5, 2008, New York —“Today’s sham proceedings further illustrate the absurd nature of the process this White House has established at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. government admits it only intends to...
Experts will connect the dots between the police killing of unarmed African Americans in the U.S. and the brutal treatment of Muslim men imprisoned at Guantanamo. The panelists include Kathy Kelly (...
Updated: February 9, 2015
November 15, 2007, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an amicus brief in the first Guantánamo case before the European Court of Human Rights. The petitioners in this...
December 19, 2007, Washington, D.C. - The estate of an Iraqi man who was killed when Blackwater personnel opened fire on innocent bystanders in and around Al Watahba Square in Baghdad on Sept. 9 sued...
Mohammed al-Qahtani Suffers from Schizophrenia and PTSD and Should Be Returned Home, His Attorneys Say September 29, 2020, Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit...
October 28, 2008, Washington, DC – Today, an international human rights tribunal met to review the U.S. government's treatment of detainees at Guantanamo. The Inter-American Commission on Human...
Join Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC)’s 2018 Advocacy Day in Albany on March 13 to demand that New York State Governor Cuomo and the state Legislature end the torture of...
Updated: January 29, 2018
September 2012Can corporations be held accountable for human rights abuses? That is the question the U.S. Supreme Court will take up on its first day back in session on Oct. 1, and our reputation as a nation that...
Indefinite solitary confinement numbers down by 99% A year after the historic settlement in Ashker v. Governor of California mandated an end to indefinite solitary confinement in California, new data...
Updated: October 21, 2016
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