Plea deals that result in life sentences for 9/11 defendants are the only path to justice – and the only way to close Guantánamo September 11, 2025, New York – On the 24th anniversary of 9/11, the...
Aliya Hana Hussain is the Associate Director of Advocacy at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She leads the Advocacy department in implementing strategies for increased alignment, collaboration,...
November 6, 2025This week, the U.S. government was meant to be reviewed at the United Nations as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, a peer-to-peer assessment of every country’s human rights record...
Jan 8, 2026, New York – With the 24th anniversary of the opening of the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay approaching on January 11, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement:...
To mark the 24th anniversary of Guantánamo’s opening, 115 organizations, led by the Center for Victims of Torture and the Center for Constitutional Rights, signed this statement reaffirming that...
Updated: January 9, 2026
They leave us in prison for years, uncharged, Because we are Muslims. Where is the world to save us from torture? Where is the world to save us from the fire and sadness? – Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif...
Updated: January 12, 2026
Guled Hassan Duran is a Somali citizen who was captured in Djibouti and rendered to the CIA in March 2004, and who has been detained without charge at Guantánamo since September 2006.
Updated: May 5, 2026
May 6, 2026, Washington, D.C. – A Somali man detained without charge at Guantánamo since 2006 today asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to order summarily his release...
On December 16, 2025, the Center for Constitutional Rights sent a submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights to inform the thematic report on definitions...
Updated: June 25, 2026
June 2, 2015Remember the horrific accounts of CIA torture exposed in the executive summary of the Senate Torture Report? It gets worse.
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