February 18, 2012, New York –Yesterday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request for rehearing in the case USA v. El-Mezain, et al . The defendants are five former officers and...
March 4, 2015, New York – Esteemed professor and intellectual Dr. Cornel West has cancelled a high-profile lecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in support of a...
Today saw the long awaited release of a report by the CIA's Office of Inspector General (the agency's internal watchdog) investigating the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" (...
Versión en español a seguir September 22, 2022, New York — A federal district court judge ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday to search the records of former Trump...
Days before the New Year, the Bush Administration worked through Congress to strip federal courts of jurisdiction over the fate of the detainees at Guantánamo despite a June 2004 Supreme Court ruling...
August 5, 2015, New York – Today, in response to the publication of “ Towards the Closure of Guantanamo ,” a report issued by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Center for...
May 2, 2018, New York – In response to news that the first detainee has been transferred out of Guantánamo under Trump, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We are...
December 19, 2018, San Francisco — A federal court has again blocked the Trump administration’s new asylum ban. The American Civil Liberties Union, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Center for...
The group, which has represented many men at the prison, urged the Biden administration to transfer the 19 remaining men who are not charged July 31, 2024, New York – In response to the U.S...
August 28, 2008, New York – On August 22, 2008, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel Baach Robinson & Lewis , filed a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United...
