Center for Constitutional Rights Applauds Decision February 25, 2016, New York – A U.S. court of appeals today has vacated the immigration fraud conviction of Palestinian-American activist Rasmea...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher will speak at a symposium at Michigan State University College of Law on the responses of the legal system to U.S. torture. The event will feature...
Updated: February 26, 2016
February 25, 2016These are unsettling times for the 91 men clad in orange jumpsuits who whittle away the hours behind Guantanamo Bay’s razor wire fences in southeast Cuba. US President Barack Obama, a Democrat,...
February 24, 2016A trickle of detainees has been leaving Guantanamo Bay detention centre in recent weeks. Its razor-wire fences encircle only 91 men at present - a third of whom are expected to be sent overseas by...
February 25, 2016President Barack Obama’s new proposal to close the notorious U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay has already attracted the predictable right-wing blowback, with 2016 hopeful Ted Cruz claiming the...
February 25, 2016President Obama's plan to close Guantanamo Bay outright faces stiff political opposition from Congress. But the plan the president outlined Tuesday could all but empty out the military prison by the...
February 24, 2016The US president Barack Obama has released a plan to shut down the controversial detention centre at Guantanamo Bay before he leaves office in January He says the facility is an expensive recruiting...
February 24, 2016He admitted it would take more than his first 100 days in office , but seven years later, President Barack Obama is still trying to fulfill a long-ago made promise to close the U.S. prison at...
February 24, 2016Ocho años después de que Obama prometiese el cierre del campo de prisioneros de Guantánamo, vuelve a poner el tema sobre la mesa. Pero aunque tenga éxito, para algunos no solucionaría el problema...
February 23, 2016President Barack Obama presented a four-point plan Tuesday to “close Guantanamo once and for all” the president said. The plan now lies in the control of Congress to approve the closure, or not. “...
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