..."As an advocate who's been working on this issue for years, that's really the question we want people to ask: who are these people at Guantanamo?" said Aliya Hussain, a human rights advocate at...
January 26, 2018, New York – In response to the leak of a State Department cable saying that Trump plans to sign an executive order to keep Guantánamo Bay prison open, the Center for Constitutional...
Courts, Not Trump, Will Decide Fate of Prisoners, Attorneys Say January 30, New York – In response to Donald Trump’s statement in tonight’s State of the Union address that he is issuing an executive...
Center for Constitutional Rights Submits “Victim’s Representations” in Support of Pending ICC Prosecution January 31, 2018, The Hague – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted a...
...But those figures are up for debate, given the difficulties of tracking and confirming the activities of detainees after they’ve left the prison. The office of the Director National Intelligence,...
Wells Dixon, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses President Trump’s move to keep open the controversial military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He speaks with...
...“I have no doubt terrorist groups like ISIS will applaud Trump’s announcement that it is now the formal policy of the United States to detain Muslims forever without charge in an offshore prison...
...Practically speaking, Trump's order won't do much, Obama's Guantanamo envoy, Lee Wolosky, tells The Associated Press . "But as a symbolic matter, it changes a great deal because the two presidents...
Janine Jackson: January 11 marked 16 years since the opening of the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, specifically designed to be beyond the reach of US law and away from public view, holding...
...Civil liberties groups immediately denounced the executive order, and the Center for Constitutional Rights said it would file a legal challenge. “In trying to give new life to a prison that...
