November 9, 2015Are there too many police or are there too few? In the months since Black Lives Matter activists first organized protests against police violence, the concept of over-policing has become key in...
December 26, 2015Lawyers representing Guantánamo Bay detainees who have been held at the camp in Cuba for up to 14 years without charge or trial have accused President Obama of stalling on his promise to close the...
January 7, 2016Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights, two organizations headquartered in New York City, said they hoped the settlement would prompt de Blasio to speak out against profiling. "...
January 7, 2016..."This settlement is important in light of escalating anti-Muslim rhetoric and hate crimes in the U.S., but at the same time we hope Mayor de Blasio will be more vocal about why the department was...
January 14, 2016nited States officials said on Thursday that 10 lower-level Yemeni detainees had been transferred from the Guantánamo Bay prison to Oman . ... ... Mr. Ghazi has also attracted some attention because...
The landmark 2015 settlement in Ashker v. Governor of California will end long-term solitary for thousands of prisoners in California. Febe Baca tells the story of her husband, Darryl, who was...
Updated: January 26, 2016
February 25, 2016President Obama's plan to close Guantanamo Bay outright faces stiff political opposition from Congress. But the plan the president outlined Tuesday could all but empty out the military prison by the...
February 26, 2016“Why not shoot them?” asks prominent right-wing magazine National Review, in an article proposing that the U.S. government execute Guantánamo detainees instead of transferring them. President Obama...
April 16, 2016Saudi Arabia on Saturday took in nine Yemeni detainees from Guantánamo, a breakthrough deal with the at-times stubborn oil kingdom that left 80 captives at the downsizing U.S. military detention...
April 18, 2016On April 16, the Department of Defense issued a short press release announcing that Mohammed al-Hamiri, a Yemeni citizen held at Guantánamo Bay, had been transferred for release. Hamiri had been...
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