March 30, 2016Out of the nearly 800 people who have been imprisoned at Guantánamo over the last fourteen years, only 8 have been convicted of a crime—that’s just 1%. Yet, Republicans, eager to keep the prison open...
Sharqawi Al Hajj is a 47-year-old citizen of Yemen who has been detained without charge at Guantánamo since 2004, after over two years in CIA sites. He faces the prospect of a death sentence in...
Updated: November 15, 2024
New testimony precedes United States’ upcoming human rights review in November 2026 August 31, 2026, Washington, D.C. – Last week, a coalition of immigrant rights organizations testified before the...
October 22, 2015, New York – In response to President Obama’s veto today of the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents many of...
Mohammed Kamin’s Periodic Review Board (PRB) proceedings were part of an administrative process created to review the cases of those Guantánamo detainees who are neither already cleared for release...
Updated: March 2, 2017
Amna Akbar, Columbus, OH, is an Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University. Her research and teaching focus on social movements, critical theory, and policing, race, and inequality. Her...
Pardiss Kebriaei is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where her work encompasses "national security" and criminal justice issues. Current clients include Sharqawi Al...
In September 2013, CCR published a shadow report submission entitled, Stopped, Seized and Under Siege: U.S. Government Violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights through...
Updated: September 9, 2013
March 7, 2011, New York – In response to the Obama administration’s announcement today that it has ordered the Department of Defense to lift a stay on new charges in military commissions...
Zahir Hamdoun Zahir Hamdoun, a Yemeni citizen born in 1979 in Hadramout, Yemen, was held without charge in Guantanamo for over fourteen years. The fifth of eight children, Mr. Hamdoun grew up in a...
Updated: August 15, 2016
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