by Laura Raymond, International Human Rights Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights Unbelievably, in 2011 this question has not yet been settled in the courts of the United States...
Updated: December 21, 2011
By Pam Spees, Senior Staff Attorney Updated September 27, 2011 Last week, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and members of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP...
Updated: November 13, 2013
February 2011The federal government must provide documents "in a usable format" when it responds to FOIA requests, a federal judge in Manhattan has ruled.
January 2011It is disappointing to see the same president who ran on his constitutional law professor bona fides devote so much time and effort to discrediting WikiLeaks and working up charges against its...
February 2011Security worries on the ground in Switzerland, not fear of a torture complaint over waterboarding, led organizers to cancel former President George W. Bush's speech at a gala this week in a luxurious...
February 2011A planned trip to Switzerland this week by George W. Bush was canceled after human rights activists called for demonstrations and threatened legal action over allegations that the former president...
January 2011A group of 173 human rights activists, each wearing an orange jumpsuit and a black hood and representing the remaining 173 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, rallied in front of the White House on...
January 2011US officials said Thursday an Algerian national who was held at Guantanamo and cleared of terror suspicious by a US judge more than a year ago was repatriated, despite his objections.
January 2011Dozens of Guantanamo inmates protested their imprisonment with a sit-in and signs to mark the ninth anniversary of the prison camp's opening.
February 2011The United Israel Appeal scrapped a plan to showcase former President George W. Bush at a Feb. 12 gala in Geneva amid reports that human rights groups were poised to protest and file a torture...
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