March 2012Avi Dichter, the former Director of Israel’s General Security Service (GSS), has been sued in a United States court for his role in the Al-Daraj, Gaza bombing that killed fifteen people and injured...
January 2012J ust over two weeks ago, in a highly publicised event, Troy Davis was executed by the state of Georgia despite global protest and significant evidence of his innocence. Since then, three other men...
June 2013This week presents a pivotal moment for the New York City Council to do their share in the citywide movement to end the massive violation of rights resulting from the abuse of policing practices like...
A United Nations panel has sharply critiqued how the Vatican responded to widespread sexual abuse by Catholic priests, which the Vatican calls distorted and unfair. Rev. Thomas Rosica of the Catholic...
Updated: April 3, 2015
Fahd Ghazy Fahd Ghazy is a Yemeni-national who was detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba for 14 years. Fahd arrived at Guantánamo in February 2002. He was only 17 when his nightmare began. Fahd was...
Updated: January 14, 2016
Djamel Ameziane (Photo by Debi Cornwall) A refugee from Algeria, Djamel Ameziane was detained in Guantánamo Bay from 2002 – 2013. Djamel was born into a large, close-knit Berber family that...
Updated: December 7, 2015
April 2009Center for Constitutional Rights cooperating attorney Judith Chompsky appeared on WBAI on April 28, 2009 to talk about Wiwa v. Shell. Listen here .
The multinational corporation Shell financed, armed, and otherwise colluded with the Nigerian military forces that used deadly force and conducted massive, brutal raids against the Ogoni people of...
Updated: May 30, 2015
The undersigned civil liberties, human rights, national security, and religious organizations write to urge you to oppose H.R. 401 introduced by Representative Walorski barring transfers out of...
Updated: June 1, 2015
Oral argument in Davis v. Cox took place on January 20, 2015.
Updated: June 1, 2015
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