A Guantanamo Bay detainee's testimony suggested last year's Senate report on torture did not cover all forms of abuse used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, an exclusive report by Reuters said...
An Owings Mills High School graduate who helped al-Qaida carry out a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia endured years of torture by the CIA, including being waterboarded in an ice bath, his lawyers...
The CIA used a wider array of sexual abuse and other forms of torture than was disclosed in a Senate report last year, according to a Guantanamo Bay detainee turned government cooperating witness...
For years, Guantanamo Bay prisoners’ memories of their time in CIA custody have been considered classified state secrets. Abu Zubaydah's lawyers can’t talk publicly about how he lost his left eye...
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...
"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...
Not 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...
Habeas Relief Sought for Eight-Year Hunger Striker June 25, 2015, Washington, D.C. – Today, attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) are seeking a court order granting his habeas...
I last saw Tariq Ba Odah in March, just one month after he completed the eighth year of an unbroken hunger strike in protest of his continued detention without charge at Guantánamo. Tariq’s lawyer,...
