J. Wells Dixon Senior Staff AttorneyRelated ContentCases Hicks v. United StatesRepresenting David Hicks, an Australian citizen who was detained for five and a half years at Guantánamo, where he was tortured. Al-Quraishi, et al. v. Nakhla and L-3 ServicesAl Quraishi v. Nakhla and L-3 Services challenged corporate impunity for torture and other war crimes at Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq. Ameziane v. Obama / Ameziane v. United StatesGuantanamo habeas petition in D.C. District Court, and human rights petition and request for precautionary measures before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (“IACHR”) for Djamel Ameziane Boumediene v. Bush / Al Odah v. United StatesThe second landmark Supreme Court case establishing the rights of the men detained at Guantanamo. Khan v. Obama / Khan v. Gates / United States v. Khan / Khan v. BidenCCR’s representation of Guantánamo prisoner and victim of CIA torture Majid Khan. Barre v. ObamaHabeas corpus and Detainee Treatment Act petitions on behalf of Guantánamo detainee Mohammed Sulaymon Barre Pages« first‹ previous12 Opinion Mike Pompeo: Unfit to be CIA directorJanuary 13, 2017By J. Wells DixonCongressman Mike Pompeo is ill-suited to be CIA director. His résumé is impressive: West Point valedictorian, Army officer, Harvard Law graduate, successful businessman, and a multi-term congressman...torture, Donald Trump Obama’s Guantánamo: Essay Excerpt by CCR's Wells DixonDecember 21, 2016By J. Wells DixonAs President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...Guantanamo Guantánamo Litigation as Legal WarfareApril 13, 2016By J. Wells DixonAmid a news cycle crowded with reports about Republican fearmongering and the Obama Administration’s bureaucratic paralysis on closing Guantánamo, a local news article last week from Fort Wayne,... Videos Closing Guantanamo: Fordham Law School Panel discussionFebruary 21, 2016Fordham Law School hosted a discussion on the policy challenges, legal concerns, and security considerations relating to the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. U.S. Allows Torture Victims To Discuss MemoriesJune 15, 2015The U.S. government begins to allow torture victims like Majid Khan to discuss their accounts while in CIA custody... "These are War Crimes": Shocking Details Emerge of U.S. Resident Majid Khan’s Torture by CIAJune 4, 2015Shocking new details have emerged about how the CIA tortured a former resident of Baltimore, Maryland, who has been in U.S. detention since 2003, first at a CIA black site, then at Guantánamo. Majid...
Hicks v. United StatesRepresenting David Hicks, an Australian citizen who was detained for five and a half years at Guantánamo, where he was tortured.
Al-Quraishi, et al. v. Nakhla and L-3 ServicesAl Quraishi v. Nakhla and L-3 Services challenged corporate impunity for torture and other war crimes at Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq.
Ameziane v. Obama / Ameziane v. United StatesGuantanamo habeas petition in D.C. District Court, and human rights petition and request for precautionary measures before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (“IACHR”) for Djamel Ameziane
Boumediene v. Bush / Al Odah v. United StatesThe second landmark Supreme Court case establishing the rights of the men detained at Guantanamo.
Khan v. Obama / Khan v. Gates / United States v. Khan / Khan v. BidenCCR’s representation of Guantánamo prisoner and victim of CIA torture Majid Khan.
Barre v. ObamaHabeas corpus and Detainee Treatment Act petitions on behalf of Guantánamo detainee Mohammed Sulaymon Barre
Mike Pompeo: Unfit to be CIA directorJanuary 13, 2017By J. Wells DixonCongressman Mike Pompeo is ill-suited to be CIA director. His résumé is impressive: West Point valedictorian, Army officer, Harvard Law graduate, successful businessman, and a multi-term congressman...torture, Donald Trump
Obama’s Guantánamo: Essay Excerpt by CCR's Wells DixonDecember 21, 2016By J. Wells DixonAs President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...Guantanamo
Guantánamo Litigation as Legal WarfareApril 13, 2016By J. Wells DixonAmid a news cycle crowded with reports about Republican fearmongering and the Obama Administration’s bureaucratic paralysis on closing Guantánamo, a local news article last week from Fort Wayne,...
