By Vincent Warren, Executive Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights It is a bedrock principle of democratic government that the state cannot be judge, jury and executioner all at once. Yet...
Updated: April 17, 2012
April 2, 2014 - We, the undersigned human rights and civil liberties groups, welcome the introduction of The Targeted Lethal Force Transparency Act and commend Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) and...
Updated: April 2, 2014
September 22, 2014 – Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council—a 47-member body tasked with monitoring, promoting and protecting human rights around the world—convened an...
Updated: September 22, 2014
August 2010By CHARLIE SAVAGE WASHINGTON — A group of human rights lawyers want to stop the Obama administration from authorizing the military and the C.I.A. to kill the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-...
August 2010by Dina Temple-Raston The father of the Internet's most famous radical cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, is planning to sue the U.S. government for including his son on a CIA target list. Nasser al-Awlaki...
August 2010By Glenn Greenwald A major legal challenge to one of the Obama administration's most radical assertions of executive power began this morning in a federal courthouse in Washington, DC. Early last...
August 2010The U.S. government issued a license that enabled private lawyers to challenge the constitutionality of the CIA's targeting of terror suspect Anwar Alwaki, an American citizen living in Yemen.
August 2010Even if the allegations against U.S.-born Muslim cleric Anwar Awlaki are true, it's still controversial whether the U.S. can legally assassinate a suspected terrorist away from a battlefield.
Two human rights organizations went to court on Monday to challenge the Obama administration's decision to authorize the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical Muslim cleric now hiding...
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) recently launched a legal challenge against the president's right to kill al Qaeda operatives. If the suit is...
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