Join us for CCR First Wednesday on July 1, 2015. We’ll discuss secret detention and torture, in fiction and reality. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will be joined by author Ellen Meeropol...
Updated: June 24, 2015
The U.S. government begins to allow torture victims like Majid Khan to discuss their accounts while in CIA custody...
Updated: June 16, 2015
Since 9/11, the United States has moved to legalize many policies that sanction and protect state violence, including in prisons from Guantánamo to Bagram. Using the context of the so-called "War on...
Updated: June 24, 2015
Join CCR and allies from Amnesty International USA, Witness Against Torture, CODEPINK: Women For Peace, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Bill of Rights Defense...
Updated: June 24, 2015
June 22, 2015"We're going to beat you up, son." "Son, we're going to take care of you. We are going to send you to a place you cannot imagine." Majid Khan's interrogators meant what they said. In newly...
June 19, 2015I’ve written extensively about the important and complex legal questions raised by state-law tort suits against private military contractors, many of which have arisen in the context of suits by...
June 22, 2015In a bid to open criminal proceedings against Israel for its 50-day-long attack on Gaza that left thousands dead last summer, the Palestinian Authority is expected to submit its first file to the...
Amicus briefs in a case seeking civil liability from multinational corporations for their role aiding and abetting the South African apartheid regime.
Updated: February 26, 2024
June 25, 2015Not a single U.S. government official has been called to account in a federal court for the sadistic crimes described in the CIA Torture Report. Waterboarding, rape, sleep deprivation, the list goes...
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