January 2, 2016In recent years, Congress and the Pentagon have stood in the way of President Obama’s goal of shutting down the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The legislative hurdles have been predictable in a...
December 30, 2015... "The president knows that Guantanamo is wrong, legally and morally," says Wells Dixon, senior attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, who has represented clients at Gitmo since 2005. "...
January 11 marks the 14th anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay prison , an offshore facility created to isolate, dehumanize, and indefinitely detain Muslim men and boys swept up in post-9...
Updated: January 19, 2016
Mohammed Al-Hamiri is a Yemeni citizen who was detained at Guantánamo for over 14 years, despite being cleared for release in 2009. He was released to the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia on April 16, 2016...
Updated: April 16, 2016
Coalition Demands Obama Step Up Pace of Transfers and Review Boards, Take Charge of Insubordinate DOD, and Finally Close Prison Washington, DC – Today, a coalition of human rights activists, torture...
January 11, 2016As we begin a new year fighting for justice (our 50 th !), we’d like to thank the thousands of CCR supporters and donors who helped make last year’s victories possible and who, through their...
January 11, 2016Fourteen years ago on Monday, the first wave of detainees arrived at the notorious U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Seven years ago, President-elect Barack Obama promised that he would...
January 11, 2016It was supposed to be a crucial part of Barack Obama’s plan to close Guantánamo Bay. But frustrated officials say the special review board designed to speed up the closure of the detention camp in...
January 12, 2016, New York – In response to the president’s State of the Union speech, in which he reiterated his pledge to close the prison at Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which...
January 12, 2016...Shane Kadidal, a lawyer and Guantanamo specialist at the Center for Constitutional Rights , a legal charity, urged Obama to live up to his promise of closing the jail and ending the dubious...
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