...But a new court challenge, brought by Kebriaei and her colleagues at the Center for Constitution Rights, could upend the status quo and signal the largest shift in U.S. military detention policies...
March 13, 2018 New York – In response to news that Donald Trump is replacing Rex Tillerson at the State Department with Mike Pompeo, who currently heads the CIA, and naming Gina Haspel to head the...
...Trump's decision is "unsurprising given Trump's deep-seated racism, his well-documented antipathy toward all Muslims, and his endless puffing and posturing. The entire Trump White House is stacked...
...A separate lawsuit filed in federal court in D.C. in January challenges the legal grounds for detaining 11 men held at the military facility for up to 16 years without being charged. That case,...
U.S. Tortured Him Knowing History of Psychosis April 19, 2018, Washington, D.C. – Today, attorneys urged a federal judge to appoint a Mixed Medical Commission to assess whether Guantánamo prisoner...
... Dixon said: “The open question is this: how stupid is the president of the United States, and will he threaten US military operations against Isis by bringing an Isis suspect to Guantánamo?” Read...
May 2, 2018, New York – In response to news that the first detainee has been transferred out of Guantánamo under Trump, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We are...
...The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, which has represented many Guantanamo prisoners over the years, issued a statement welcoming the transfer of al-Darbi but criticizing the...
...In a statement, the Center for Constitutional Rights—which represents many of Guantánamo’s prisoners—said it was relieved over al-Darbi’s transfer, but added, “His transfer came at great cost—over...
May 9, 2018, New York – In response to today’s Senate confirmation hearing for Gina Haspel to head the CIA, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: Gina Haspel could not...
