Keynote Speaker: Maria LaHood, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights Come hear Maria talk about Arar v. Ashcroft, the case against U.S. officials who rendered Canadian Muslim Maher...
Updated: September 3, 2008
February 2009The Obama administration backed the Bush administration's arguments in a lawsuit involving the practice of seizing terror suspects abroad and sending them to third countries for questioning. The case...
February 2012Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses how the Alien Tort Statute often provides the only way for a victim of human rights abuses committed abroad to see...
March 2014In his recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared that the US would complete its military mission in Afghanistan by the end of this year and "America's longest war will...
CCR continues our First Wednesday’s summer series at Von, where CCR Legal Worker Aliya Hana Hussain and CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei will discuss their work on behalf of men detained at...
Updated: June 1, 2015
June 2, 2015A Guantanamo Bay detainee's testimony suggested last year's Senate report on torture did not cover all forms of abuse used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, an exclusive report by Reuters said...
August 21, 2015The lawyer representing Tariq Ba Odah, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who began a hunger strike in 2007, said Friday that his client had lost more than half of his...
September 11, 2015Lawyers for a Guantanamo prisoner on hunger strike are challenging a military doctor’s assertion that he is clinically stable even though his weight has dropped to around 75 pounds (34 kilograms)...
February 23, 2016President Barack Obama released his long-awaited plan for closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying he doesn't want the next U.S. president -- no matter who it is -- to have to keep...
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