In March 2003, Center for Constitutional Rights client Majid Khan was captured, forcibly disappeared, and tortured by U.S. officials at overseas "black sites" operated by the CIA. He was brought to...
Updated: October 27, 2021
After many years of quietly providing background support to the EU and other northern states that have actively worked to prevent other United Nations member states from developing an international...
Updated: October 22, 2021
On October 28, 2021, Majid Khan read an unclassified personal statement during his sentencing hearing before a Guantánamo military commission. In his words, it is the story that he has been waiting...
Updated: February 2, 2023
Dear Secretary Blinken: The undersigned U.S.-based social justice, civil rights, and human rights leaders and organizations write to demand that you immediately and unequivocally condemn the Israeli...
Updated: November 18, 2021
Charles Watts is a 51-year-old Black man on whose behalf the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a motion for “compassionate release” in federal court on November 9, 2021.
Updated: December 2, 2022
The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, the Center for...
Updated: November 16, 2021
The Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled a hearing on December 7, 2021, to examine the situation at the Guantanamo Bay prison twenty years after its opening and the path toward closure. Statements...
Updated: December 7, 2021
Where is the world to save us from torture? Where is the world to save us from the fire and sadness? – Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif Twenty years after the opening of Guantánamo , Adnan's questions remain...
Updated: February 2, 2022
Everything can be used / except what is wasteful / (you will need / to remember this when you are accused of destruction). Audre Lorde, 1981, “ The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism ”...
Updated: January 31, 2022
This Women’s History Month we reaffirm our duty to actively support those who daily fight to dismantle patriarchal violence : the interconnected systems of dominance that marginalize and limit the...
Updated: March 1, 2022
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