The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to co-sponsor the War on Terror Film Festival , a month-long, virtual program organized by the Coalition for Civil Freedoms featuring 20 award-winning...
Updated: October 20, 2021
October 7, 2021...In December, lawyers for the outgoing Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to take up the case. They said judges should defer to the government and should not second-guess the executive...
October 7, 2021...The prosecutors had hoped to find a receptive partner in the administration of President Barack Obama, particularly as the American public had widely condemned the war on terror tactics of his...
October 8, 2021... Moyn takes Ratner—the long-time president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) who died in 2016—to task for filing Rasul v. Bush to give people indefinitely detained at Guantánamo the...
In March 2003, Center for Constitutional Rights client Majid Khan was captured, forcibly disappeared, and tortured by U.S. officials at overseas "black sites" operated by the CIA. He was brought to...
Updated: October 27, 2021
The Institute for Policy Studies, Haymarket Books, and the Center for Constitutional Rights present “Grasping at the Root: White Supremacy and the So-Called “War on Terror,” ...
Updated: October 27, 2021
On October 28, 2021, Majid Khan read an unclassified personal statement during his sentencing hearing before a Guantánamo military commission. In his words, it is the story that he has been waiting...
Updated: February 2, 2023
In Unprecedented Testimony, Guantánamo Prisoner Majid Khan Finally Tells His Story at Sentencing Hearing October 28, 2021, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba ‒ Today, a man who was disappeared and tortured at...
October 29, 2021, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba ‒ The military commission sentencing hearing of a man tortured and imprisoned by the U.S. for eighteen years concluded today, paving the way for his transfer...
Senior Managing Attorney Shane Kadidal will be participating on a panel, “Guantánamo: The Future,” as part of the University of Brighton conference, Guantanamo: 20 Years After...
Updated: November 10, 2021
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