Join CCR and co-counsel for oral argument in Al Bihani v. Trump before Senior Judge Thomas F. Hogan. The argument will take place at 11:00 am in Courtroom 26A in the U.S. District Court for the...
..."If suspected ISIS fighters are transferred to Guantánamo I would expect that a legal challenge to their detention would be filed within days if not hours of their arrival," said Wells Dixon of...
...It is unlikely that the PRB has failed to reach a consensus after 16 months of deliberating. “My speculation is that some of these men have been approved for transfer by the board, there has then...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International USA, Justice for Muslims Collective, and Witness Against Torture for a discussion of Trump’s Guantánamo. Doors open at 6:00pm and the...
“[It’s] like we’re buried alive.” That’s how CCR client Sharqawi Al Hajj describes his imprisonment at Guantánamo, as a cemetery. Before he was brought to the island prison, Sharqawi was disappeared...
July 11, 2018, Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued before a federal judge in a challenge to Donald Trump’s ongoing detention of men at Guantánamo...
resident Donald Trump’s Supreme Court selection sweepstakes ended, as promoted, Monday night with the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District...
...Without court intervention, the lawyers argued, the government would allow the prisoners to die in detention without having a trial or being reunited with their families. “There have to be some...
...The current fight against terrorist groups is “totally disconnected” from the nature of the conflict after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks ― when the men at Guantanamo were taken into custody ― Center...
...“It is totally boundless,” Baher Azmy, legal director at Center for Constitutional Rights representing some of the prisoners, told the court. “The fact that someone may have associated with the...
