June 22, 2017The corpses pile up like sandbags along the planet’s geopolitical borders. “Perhaps his condition deteriorated and the authorities decided it was better to release him in a coma than as a corpse.” So...
June 30, 2017For Abdul Latif Nasser, a Moroccan national held in the US military-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the difference between freedom and continued incarceration was just eight days...
July 8, 2017The Trump administration appears to be making its first moves toward fulfilling a campaign promise to fill the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with “bad dudes.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy...
July 10, 2017Ramzi Kassem, a professor at CUNY School of Law, and J. Wells Dixon, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discuss why the Canadian government offered a multimillion-dollar...
July 14, 2017Last month, I took my first trip to the US military detention camp at Guantánamo Bay to visit Sufyian Barhoumi. As a military handler drove me and my colleagues from the Center for Constitutional...
July 24, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
July 25, 2017In 2002, the United States government detained a Mauritanian man, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, and sent him to Gitmo. As Slahi waited to be charged (he never was), he penned a 446-page memoir that detailed...
July 28, 2017I'm not the first person to investigate the place of games at Gitmo. Which was surprising to me, because in some ways, especially in the beginning, my investigation into the Detainee Library and its...
CCR clients Djamel Ameziane and Ghaleb Al-Bihani will show select pieces of artwork at the upcoming exhibit, Ode to the Sea: Art from Guantánamo Bay , which will run from October 2 through January 26...
Updated: January 17, 2018
CCR advocacy program manager Aliya Hussain will participate in an evening symposium, What Does it Mean to Make Art at Guantanamo? , as part of the ongoing exhibit Ode to the Sea: Art from Guantánamo...
Updated: September 26, 2017
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