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Human Rights Groups Condemn Canadian Attorney General's Move to Immediately Block Torture Case Against George W. Bush

October 24, 2011

October 24, 2011, Surrey, BC and New York, NY – After successfully lodging a private torture prosecution with a British Columbia court against former U.S. president George W. Bush as he visited...

Center for Constitutional Rights Urges U.S. to Apologize for Involvement in 1954 Guatemalan Coup and Human Rights Violations

October 21, 2011

October 24, 2011 - In light of last Thursday’s official apology from the Guatemalan government to the family of President Arbenz for the coup d’état and subsequent human rights...

Torture Victims’ Case against George W. Bush Received in Provincial Court in British Columbia

October 20, 2011

October 20, 2011, Surrey, BC –Today, as former U.S. president George W. Bush visits Surrey as a paid speaker at a regional economic summit, a Justice of the Peace in the British Columbia...

Torture Victims to Initiate Private Prosecution against George W. Bush on His Arrival in Canada

October 19, 2011

October 19, 2011, Surrey, BC —Tomorrow, four individuals who allege they were tortured during George W. Bush’s tenure as president of the United States will lodge a private prosecution in...

World Day Against the Death Penalty: Son of McCarthy-Era Execution Victims Equates Death Sentence with Torture

October 12, 2011

October 12, 2011, Paris, France – Today, Robert Meeropol, Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, outspoken opponent of the death penalty, and the younger son of Ethel and Julius...

Oral Argument in Al-Zahrani v. Rumsfeld before U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

October 5, 2011

Oral argument will be heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals in the case of Al-Zahrani v. Rumsfeld tomorrow, October 6. Al-Zahrani is a civil action filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on...

CCR Condemns Targeted Assassination of U.S. Citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki

September 30, 2011

September 30, 2011, New York—Today, in response to the news that a missile attack by an American drone aircraft had killed U.S. citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki in Yemen, the Center for Constitutional...

Human Rights Groups Urge Bush Torture Prosecution

September 29, 2011

September 29, 2011, Vancouver – Today, the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ) lodged a detailed and lengthy...

Major Human Rights Report Affirms That Sexual Abuse by the Clergy is “Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment”

September 26, 2011

September 26, 2011 NEW YORK – In response to the release of a major human rights report on clerical sexual abuse, released today by Amnesty International in Ireland, CCR issued the following...

Conviction Upheld in Guantánamo Military Commission Appeal; Defendant Will Serve Life in Prison

September 12, 2011

September 12, 2011, New York - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights responded to the United States Court of Military Commission Review (CMRC) decision in Al-Bahlul v. United States , which was...

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Human Rights Groups Condemn Canadian Attorney General's Move to Immediately Block Torture Case Against George W. Bush

Center for Constitutional Rights Urges U.S. to Apologize for Involvement in 1954 Guatemalan Coup and Human Rights Violations

Torture Victims’ Case against George W. Bush Received in Provincial Court in British Columbia

Torture Victims to Initiate Private Prosecution against George W. Bush on His Arrival in Canada

World Day Against the Death Penalty: Son of McCarthy-Era Execution Victims Equates Death Sentence with Torture

Oral Argument in Al-Zahrani v. Rumsfeld before U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

CCR Condemns Targeted Assassination of U.S. Citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki

Human Rights Groups Urge Bush Torture Prosecution

Major Human Rights Report Affirms That Sexual Abuse by the Clergy is “Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment”

Conviction Upheld in Guantánamo Military Commission Appeal; Defendant Will Serve Life in Prison

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