A detainee who had been on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay for nine years has been transferred out of the facility, the Obama administration announced Saturday. According to a statement from the...
Four former inmates of Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison will now be able to sue over alleged torture by United States military contractors. A US federal appeals court reinstated the lawsuit on...
It was September 2001, two weeks after 19 Muslim hijackers carried out the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history. Federal authorities never found any connection between Abbasi, a 28-year-old yellow...
We’re on the brink of a full-throttled return to officially sanctioned US torture. Our impulsive president has said he wants to bring back waterboarding “and a hell of a lot worse” and has now named...
... He agreed to volunteer his time to represent the men in 2005 after seeing a flyer that said the Center for Constitutional Rights was looking for lawyers to work in Guantanamo. CCR, a New York-...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights has just launched the Open Records Project: FOIA for the Movement . The project is coordinated by Ian Head, senior legal worker at CCR, co-editor of the...
...Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Angelo Guisado, staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, which along with the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center have mounted a legal...
Alec, the rightwing network that brings conservative lawmakers together with corporate lobbyists to create model legislation that is cloned across the US, has been accused of spreading racist and...
...Legal advocates like the J. Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights said it was a “highly unusual” decision by the local U.S. Attorney’s Office to involve itself in what were...
…The legislation is backed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and Jewish Voice for Peace among others. Vince Warren, CCR’s director, said: “Aiding...
