Join CCR President and Pittsburgh Law Professor Jules Lobel , CCR Deputy Legal Director Alexis Agathocleous , and other experts from a variety of disciplines and countries to talk about solitary...
J. Wells Dixon moved to New York from Hartford on Sept. 11, 2001, to start a job as an associate at Kramer Levin Frankel & Naftalis. At the time, he says, he could never have imagined that 14...
CCR Bertha Fellow Omar Shakir will moderate a panel at a day-long conference about Palestine that aims to address the substance of the right to return, its grounding in international law, and its...
CCR Bertha Fellow Omar Shakir and Palestine Legal Staff Attorney Rahul Saksena will discuss the historical, comparative, and theoretical context of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS). Shakir...
Mustafa al Shamiri spent most of his years at Guantánamo wrongly described as an al-Qaida trainer and facilitator, a captive of consequence, until his first parole-style hearing revealed an...
Out of the nearly 800 people who have been imprisoned at Guantánamo over the last fourteen years, only 8 have been convicted of a crime—that’s just 1%. Yet, Republicans, eager to keep the prison open...
Retired senior military officers and human rights advocates are reacting with disgust at Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s description of the Geneva Conventions as a “problem” for...
he Pentagon has notified Congress that it intends to resettle nearly a dozen detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility, including a Yemeni man who has been on hunger strike since...
CCR invites you to FilmFest DC’s screening of Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr , a film by Patrick Reed and Michelle Shephard. Following the film, there will be a short talk-back with co-director...
CCR invites you to FilmFest DC’s screening of Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr , a film by Patrick Reed and Michelle Shephard. Following the film, there will be a short talk-back with co-director...
