Supreme Court rules that military commissions established by Bush were unauthorized by federal statute and violate international law.
August 16, 2016... Among those released is Zahir Hamdoun, a Yemeni citizen held at Guantánamo without charge since 2002, when he was 22 years old. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents...
July 24, 2017In response to a lawsuit claiming that hundreds of asylum seekers were illegally turned away at San Diego ports of entry, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D.-Calif., has asked Homeland Security Secretary John...
July 26, 2017Students at Fordham University are suing the university saying it’s violating its own laws and procedures by not allowing them to register a Students for Justice in Palestine club at the school’s...
November 2, 2017For years, Trump has wanted to send terrorists to the U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He’s tweeted about it, spoken about it in interviews and promoted the idea on the...
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CCR's executve director analyzes the unfolding events and the underlying injustices in Baltimore
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August 2007District court judge Ricardo Urbina dismisses legal challenges by Guantanamo detainees and bars attorneys access to their clients.
Updated: December 5, 2014
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