Los Angeles, California, May 5, 2008 – New torture claims have been leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib “ghost” detainee who was wrongly imprisoned and later released...
Los Angeles, California, May 5, 2008 – New torture claims have been leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib “ghost” detainee who was wrongly imprisoned and later released...
September 23, 2009, New York and Washington DC —In response to the CIA’s refusal to either ‘confirm or deny’ the existence of key torture documents, three human rights groups...
Defending Democracy: How to Defeat Legal Bullying by Corporations 5th & K | Cullen Room | January 30, 2018 | 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm Dissent, free speech, advocacy, and nonviolent protest are all...
Updated: January 30, 2018
On September 29, 2021, the Cameroon American Council, #CameroonTPS Coalition, and the Center for Constitutional Rights sent an urgent letter to Representative Jamie Raskin and the Maryland...
Updated: September 29, 2021
9:30am Belhas v. Ya’alon is a class action lawsuit filed against retired Israeli Lieutenant General Moshe Ya’alon that charges him with war crimes and extra-judicial killing for his role in the...
Updated: December 6, 2007
November 15, 2016A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by 4 former detainees of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison thanks in part to Rutgers Law School professor Jeena Shah who played a key role in reviving...
A federal judge in San Francisco has temporarily blocked President Trump’s plan to bar nearly all migrants from seeking asylum in the United States. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of...
Updated: July 26, 2019
February 17, 2021...The idea was that if the detainees were not on U.S. soil, they would have no legal right to seek a judge’s order of habeas corpus. That principle is a centuries-old protection against unlawful...
July 1, 2022...One of his lawyers, Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights, is with us to explain the details of that lawsuit. Hi, Wells. J WELLS DIXON: Hi, Sacha. PFEIFFER: Your client, Majid Khan,...
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