A civil liberties group filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department and the National Security Agency in New York, claiming that the U.S. illegally spied on 16 lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay...
A former prisoner at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from Australia on Wednesday won a legal challenge to his terrorism conviction before a military court. ... Read the full piece here.
February 28, 2014, New York – In response to news that the Obama Administration is debating whether to authorize the killing of a U.S. citizen terrorism suspect in Pakistan, whose name,...
June 26, 2008, New York and Washington, DC —The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must no longer be allowed to use classification arguments in its attempts to prevent the disclosure of illegal or...
October 8, 2008, Washington – The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the U.S. government’s request for an administrative stay of District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina’s order that 17 innocent...
June 8, 2009 - The Plaintiffs in the Wiwa v. Shell cases are pleased to announce a settlement of their claims. The settlement will provide $15.5 million to compensate the injuries to the Plaintiffs...
New legal documents seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, George Tenet, and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers for their alleged role in abuses...
Article discussing of Ahmed Ghalaini's indictment charges as allegedly helping to plan the US embassy bombing in Tanzania during 1998, and the details and problems of using military tribunals to hear...
The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate the torture that Djamel Ameziane experianced while in US custody. You can...
His death, which would be the fifth prisoner suicide at the detention center, renews criticism of U.S. policy and calls for Obama to keep his promise to close the offshore prison.