February 23, 2016Saying that the prison at Guantánamo Bay “undermines our standing in the world,” President Barack Obama today announced a detailed plan to close the facility, 14 years after it was first inaugurated...
March 23, 2016A California animal rights activist who freed 2,000 minks from an Illinois fur farm in 2013 was sentenced on Wednesday to house arrest and ordered to pay $200,000 to the farm's owners, prosecutors...
March 21, 2016“Israel is occupation-addicted,” said renowned Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, a columnist for the leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “The drug addict who is your friend, if you give him money, he...
April 16, 2016...“The government played Russian roulette with Mr. Ba Odah’s life for more than a year,” his lawyer, Omar Farah, an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights Attorney said. “That he survived...
May 12, 2016Journalist Salah Hasan Nusaif al-Ejaili painfully remembers his introduction to the infamous prison west of Baghdad known as Abu Ghraib. "The worst was the first day I arrived in Abu Ghraib, how they...
June 30, 2016Immigrant mothers and their children are being detained under guaranteed minimum provisions, which assure fixed detainee quotas, effectively rendering immigrants a source of profit for private and...
October 25, 2016...The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents him, called the hearing unfair and said it relied on information obtained through torture by the CIA. "He should not have been...
November 6, 2016A Massachusetts evangelist will ask a federal judge to reject a lawsuit that accuses him of waging a long campaign to persecute gays in Uganda. ... Read the full piece here.
November 15, 2016...When Ben and I returned to New York, we worked with Pardiss Kebriaei and Maria LaHood at the Center for Constitutional Rights to develop a challenge to the lawfulness of the government’s kill...
Bertha Justice Fellow Noor Zafar joined Al Jazeera English to discuss the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling upholding the stay on Trump's Muslim ban: "The president of the United States cannot...
Updated: February 14, 2017
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