CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei will participate in a debate titled, Can Drone Strikes Work on September 11th with retired U.S. Air Force Major General and current Executive Director of...
Updated: September 8, 2014
What are the government’s “kill lists” and why are they illegal? The government has “kill lists” of individuals suspected of terrorism, including U.S. citizens, who are...
Updated: July 17, 2012
Get the Facts: Suit Seeks Accountability for Killings of Three Americans in U.S. Drone Strikes Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta What are “targeted killings” and when are they illegal? Since 2001, and...
Updated: July 17, 2013
Agents of the United States are openly trying to assassinate Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, while he is in hiding in Yemen. Despite what the apologists for assassination argue this is...
Updated: June 23, 2010
This article was originally published in the Huffington Post on August 3, 2010 . Anwar Aulaqi is a US citizen and Muslim cleric living somewhere in Yemen. The US has put him on our terrorist list and...
Updated: August 3, 2010
A version of this article was originally posted by CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren on Huffington Post on November 11, 2010 Hammurabi, Moses, Justinian and Solon -- four titans of justice --...
Updated: December 1, 2010
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-...
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