January 2012Lawrence struck down a Texas sodomy law and held that sexual intimacy at home is constitutionally protected under due process and privacy principles. Coming seventeen years after Bowers v. Hardwick...
April 2013The United States has carried out dozens of operations in Yemen as part of an expanding program of “targeted killing.” While the government deployed cruise missiles in the strike in al-Majalah in...
May 2012In 2002, Maher Arar was stopped while on a layover at John F. Kennedy International Airport on his way home to Canada. US officials detained Arar for two weeks and then told him that, based on...
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 .
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