Article covering the Ahmed Ghalaini indictment and delving into the rationale and implications for using miltary tribunals rather than the Federal court system. It also covers details of the Ghalaini...
This article summarizes Ahmed Ghalaini's indictment charges as well as his history of being arrested and detained by the CIA. It posits that Ahmed will be tried in the military tribunal for...
The Center for Constitutional Rights has signed on to support a lawsuit in Vermont over a 3-year travel restriction for Cubans to visit Cuba. You can access the article here .
The trial for mortgage fraud has begun for former leader of the Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti and human rights violator, Toto Constant, and the Center for Constitutional Rights is...
"The city has agreed to pay $2,007,000 to end a lawsuit brought by 52 people who were swept up in a mass arrest along a Midtown sidewalk during a protest against the invasion of Iraq. The...
"[On the morning of April 7, 2003] police immediately cordoned off the street and allowed no one to enter or leave. Then, without any announcement, they started arresting all the protesters on...
Fourteen years after the execution of the Nigerian author and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa by Nigerian's former military regime, Royal Dutch Shell will appear before a federal court in New York to answer...
Royal Dutch Shell, the big oil company, agreed to pay $15.5 million to settle a case accusing it of taking part in human rights abuses in the Niger Delta in the early 1990s, a striking sum given the...
For the past year, a 28-year-old Muslim American student, Sayed Fahad Hashmi—the first person extradited to the United States from Britain to face charges of terrorism—has been held at the Manhattan...
