On Tuesday, March 18, CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy and co-counsel from Patterson Belknap Webb and Tyler have an important oral argument in our case against private military contractor CACI for...
President Obama has failed in his pledge of eight years ago to close the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo. Congressional obstacles, misinformation perpetuated in the media, and the president's own...
Civil rights attorneys are concerned about the disciplinary charges issued Wednesday against two Brooklyn College students for their participation in a ‘mic check’ during a February 16 faculty...
...“The US has created a situation where Israel, a foreign government, can kill US citizens knowing that the US is not going to hold them accountable,” said Maria LaHood, deputy legal director of the...
...Blue Ocean Law, in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights and ACLU-Puerto Rico, has submitted a shadow report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee detailing the ways in...
...Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were released, shocking the world. Now, three survivors of Abu Ghraib...
This week, the British government announced it will pay millions in compensation to 16 men who were detained by U.S. forces at Guantánamo. These men say the British government knew that...
"Under U.S. law, torture is a crime that can lead to life in prison – so why hasn’t it? The Senate report documents comprehensive and detailed evidence of a criminal conspiracy of U.S. government...
...While U.S. officials maintain that detainees are well treated, immigration lawyers and advocates in the U.S. have for years criticized detention conditions for immigrants in the United States. The...
November 29, 2010, New York, NY — In response to reports of a criminal investigation into the release of thousands of classified United States files and military documents by Wikileaks in July...
