A challenge to corporate impunity under the Alien Tort Statute for war crimes and torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
Updated: February 13, 2019
Federal lawsuit challenging government-ordered extrajudicial killings in Bolivia
Updated: January 25, 2019
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda filed a request with the Pre-Trial Chamber on November 20, 2017 seeking judicial authorization to open a formal investigation into crimes...
Updated: December 12, 2018
Sharqawi Al Hajj is a 43-year-old Yemeni citizen who has been detained without charge at Guantánamo since 2004 and in government custody since 2002. Prior to his transfer to Guantánamo, Al Hajj was...
Updated: December 6, 2018
CCR submitted an amicus brief in this case on behalf of the parents of Furkan Doğan , who was killed in the 2010 attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla . The flotilla, which carried more than 700...
Updated: November 19, 2018
Action seeking accountability for U.S. torture brought in France under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: September 11, 2017
Actions on U.S. torture brought in Spain under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: September 11, 2017
Action brought in Germany under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: September 11, 2017
Action brought in Switzerland under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: September 11, 2017
Action brought in Canada under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: September 11, 2017
A habeas corpus case on behalf of Guled Hassan Duran, a native of Somalia.
Updated: May 5, 2017
CCR’s representation of Guantánamo prisoner and victim of CIA torture Majid Khan.
Updated: March 2, 2017
A habeas corpus petition on behalf of the only Guantánamo detainee who the government has openly admitted was tortured.
Updated: December 1, 2016
ATS case bringing claims that U.S. technology company Cisco Systems, Inc. aided and abetted serious human rights abuses against Falun Gong practitioners in China
Updated: January 13, 2016
Amicus briefs in a case seeking civil liability from multinational corporations for their role aiding and abetting the South African apartheid regime.
Updated: September 16, 2015
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