Following Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, 9/11 families sought assets that judge rules belongs to sovereign state to satisfy Taliban debts, but doing so would recognize Taliban as “government” of...
Time: 5:30-7:30pm , Join CCR Staff Attorney Maria LaHood for a panel about CCR’s efforts to secure accountability for torture by the U.S. government and private military contractors. Speakers...
Updated: September 16, 2010
June 2, 2015A detainee currently held at the US military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba told his lawyers he was subject to forms of "enhanced interrogation techniques" beyond what was disclosed in a US...
May 11, 2016Michael Ratner, the civil and human rights attorney who represented Julian Assange and WikiLeaks in the US, died Wednesday at age 72, leaving behind an outsized legacy of advocacy for whistleblowers...
November 9, 2018A lawsuit filed today in federal court in San Francisco challenges an executive order issued today by President Donald Trump allowing migrants to seek asylum in the U.S. only if they enter lawfully...
February 11, 2019..."The US government has a legal obligation and a moral responsibility to follow up on men who are transferred out of long-term military custody, and to ensure that they aren't tortured or killed,"...
July 17, 2019...The Southern Poverty Law Center, the Center for Constitutional Rights and others joined the ACLU in seeking the injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The...
March 4, 2020... The approach echoes recently adopted laws in nine U.S. states, and under consideration in eight others, which make it a felony to block or be present near pipelines and other major infrastructure...
August 21, 2020... "What is notable about this parallel effort by the ICC to investigate Israel is that the NGOs and individuals pursuing both the Israel case and the U.S. case are closely related. Specifically,...
October 8, 2021... Moyn takes Ratner—the long-time president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) who died in 2016—to task for filing Rasul v. Bush to give people indefinitely detained at Guantánamo the...
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