On November 10, 1995, nine Ogoni leaders (the “Ogoni 9”) were executed by the Nigerian government after being falsely accused of murder and tried by a specially created military tribunal. Those...
Updated: January 22, 2008
Legal Analysis: Boumediene v. Bush/Al Odah v. United States In February 2002, the Center for Constitutional Rights and our co-counsel brought the first habeas case in federal court on behalf of...
Updated: January 11, 2010
FOREIGN INTERROGATORS IN GUANTÁNAMO BAY US Allows Security Forces from Brutal Human Rights Abusing Regimes into Guantanamo; Many Countries Complicit in Abuses at Guantánamo Since as...
Updated: January 11, 2010
The Supreme Court Decision Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative On June 12, 2008, the Supreme Court ruled in an historic decision in Boumediene v. Bush/Al Odah v. United States that the detainees at...
Updated: July 21, 2010
In 2002, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen, was detained at a U.S. airport on his way home from a family trip. He was interrogated by U.S. officials about alleged links to al-Qaeda and was repeatedly...
Updated: November 5, 2010
Why are guns for hire in Iraq? The U.S. government has increasingly been outsourcing functions previously carried out by government employees or members of the military to for-profit corporations...
Updated: September 8, 2021
For information about the current sitution at Guantánamo, please visit: ccrjustice.org/closegitmo "It's kind of like having their own apartment." Camp 6 Guard, Guantánamo Bay...
Updated: October 9, 2014
(This entire 4-page statement is available as a PDF download with this link ) Last week, the American people elected Senator Barack Obama the next president, and the nation’s first African...
Updated: January 11, 2010
December 2007Majid Khan, the first of the so-clled high-value Guantanamo detainees to have seen a lawyer claims he was subjected to "state-sanctioned torture" while in secret C.I.A. prisons, and he has...
December 2007The Justice Department and the CIA announced yesterday that they have started a preliminary inquiry into the CIA's 2005 destruction of videotapes that depicted harsh interrogation of two terrorism...
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