September 16, 2015CCR's Pardiss Kebriaei and Omar Shakir spent this week at Guantánamo meeting with our clients. They give a live report back on their visits.
In the final debate before Tuesday’s primary in New Hampshire, Republican presidential contenders battled it out Saturday night at...
Updated: February 8, 2016
June 8, 2016Earlier this year, a man named Mohammed Bawazir, one of dozens of remaining Guantanamo detainees whom the Obama administration has cleared for release and is working to transfer, rejected an offer of...
March 26, 2016When a United States detention center is hundreds of miles off the coast, it can be difficult for Americans to imagine the plight of the people who have been held there for the past 15 years. The...
January 17, 2017As President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...
Questions are mounting about the first covert counterterrorism operation approved by President Donald Trump. Authorities say it was a success.
Updated: February 6, 2017
September 8, 2017This week, CCR made an emergency request in the district court in Washington, DC, for an independent medical evaluation of Sharqawi Al Hajj , a 43-year-old citizen of Yemen who remains detained at...
January 12, 2018I represent one of the last remaining detainees in Guantánamo, Sharqawi Al Hajj, a 43-year-old man from Yemen whom the United States has been holding without charge for over 15 years and plans to...
Barack Obama, the former US president, famously promised to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, issuing an executive order in January 2009 to shut it down. But nearly a decade later the prison...
Updated: August 14, 2018
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