The warnings began even before Bill de Blasio was sworn in as New York City’s mayor in January 2014. A safe New York depended on the aggressive policing tactics that began in the 1990s and flourished...
Please pack the court for oral arguments in Aref v. Holder , CCR’s case challenging the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ “Communication Management Units.” The CMUs are experimental prison units that impose...
...Another 14 detainees have been cleared by Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter as of mid-December and are likely to be transferred over the next several weeks, according J. Wells Dixon, who...
... And on the anniversary of the first prisoners arriving at the island prison, protesters rallied in front of White House, calling for Guantánamo to be shuttered. Among them was the Center for...
These are unsettling times for the 91 men clad in orange jumpsuits who whittle away the hours behind Guantanamo Bay’s razor wire fences in southeast Cuba. US President Barack Obama, a Democrat,...
Pointing to government-friendly rulings on police illegal searches and seizures and Guantánamo detainee rights, some criminal justice reform advocates are greeting President Obama’s nomination of...
Raji Sourani , founder and director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza and Shawan Jabarin, director of al-Haq in Ramallah, will provide timely perspectives from the...
In this rare visit to the United States, leading Palestinian human rights defenders Raji Sourani and Shawan Jabarin will provide timely perspectives from the ground in Gaza and the dynamic situation...
Michael Ratner, a fearless civil liberties lawyer who successfully challenged the United States government’s detention of terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay without judicial review, died on...
Earlier this year, a man named Mohammed Bawazir, one of dozens of remaining Guantanamo detainees whom the Obama administration has cleared for release and is working to transfer, rejected an offer of...
