A federal judge said Friday he would consider whether to dismiss a lawsuit against the military contractor alleged to have orchestrated torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq because of a...
" A defense contractor that supplied interrogators to the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has again asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit seeking to hold the company responsible for abuses that...
Photos of Iraqi prisoners tethered to dog leashes and electrical wires dominated the news when they emerged in 2003 and 2004. The abuse scandal centered at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad...
"On March 5, the New York–based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) urged a French Appeals Court to fully investigate claims by...
Arar's U.S. lawyer, CCR's Maria LaHood, told the Canadian Press that she hoped Kiriakou's revelations would bring about long-overdue atonement. "He's never received an apology from the United States...
December 17, 2014, Berlin – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined a criminal complaint filed by the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) against...
February 6, 2015, Alexandria, VA – Today, four Iraqi victims tortured at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison urged a federal district court to reject attempts by private military contractor CACI...
March 5, 2015, Paris/Berlin/New York – Today, at an appeals hearing at the Chambre de l’instruction de la Cour d’appel de Paris, the attorney for former Guantánamo detainees...
April 2, 2015, Paris/Berlin/New York – Today, in a case seeking to hold U.S. officials accountable for the torture and other serious mistreatment of three French citizens formerly detained at...
May 5, 2015, New York – The following statement was issued today by the Center for Constitutional Rights: The crisis in Yemen is only deepening. Innocent Yemenis are caught between the brutal war...
