December 17, 2010, Washington, DC– Attorneys are no longer required to seek permission from the government to provide uncompensated representation to individuals the government has placed on a...
December 14, 2010, Madrid, Spain – Today, two leading human rights groups filed papers urging a Spanish judge to open a criminal investigation into the role of former Bush administration...
December 7, 2010, New York – In response to the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: As a human rights...
December 7, 2010 WASHINGTON – A federal court today acknowledged the serious issues raised by a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s targeted killing policy, but dismissed the...
November 29, 2010, New York, NY — In response to reports of a criminal investigation into the release of thousands of classified United States files and military documents by Wikileaks in July...
November 18, 2010, Washington, D.C . – This week, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) directed the Haitian State to stop evicting earthquake survivors from displacement camps...
November 17, 2010, New York – In reaction to the verdict in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, convicted of one count of conspiracy for his role in the 1998 bombings of the United States...
This week, the British government announced it will pay millions in compensation to 16 men who were detained by U.S. forces at Guantánamo. These men say the British government knew that...
November 8, 2010 , WASHINGTON – The Obama administration today argued before a federal court that it should have unreviewable authority to kill Americans the executive branch has unilaterally...
November 2, 2010, Washington, D.C. — For the 1.5 million people still living in displacement camps, forced evictions pose an immediate threat of grave and irreparable harm, according to a...