The judge handling the habeas appeals for more than 200 detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, ordered government lawyers to prioritize these cases after urging from the detainees' lawyers, including...
Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys, Gita Gutierrez and Shayana Kadidal, represented lawyers for Guantánamo detainees before Judge Hogan, who ordered government lawyers to speed up the process...
CCR attorney, Shayana Kadidal, comments on the lack of finality and legal significance in the military commission that convicted Salim Ahmed Hamdan. You can access the full article here .
One month after the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program was disclosed by the New York Times in December 2005, we sued to put an end to it. In the two and a half years since then, an ACLU suit (...
A federal judge has determined that the Fire Department of New York City used racially discriminatory hiring practices that unlawfully prevented hundreds of qualified African American and Latino...
When he took office, President Obama made clear that torture is illegal and that the United States would not abuse detainees in its custody. But when it comes to those tortured during the Bush...
The Supreme Court set the stage Tuesday for another clash with the president -- this time Barack Obama instead of George W. Bush -- over detainees in the war on terrorism and whether a judge can...
President Barack Obama confirms he will miss January deadline to close Guantanamo prison — partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees. With comment by Shayana Kadidal,...
For accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, none of the court's orders have been published; none of the transcripts have been released, and none of the government filings have been posted. Read the...
