A lawyer for a New York civil liberties group is pledging her firm’s support — from lining up mental health care to financial aid — for a long-held Yemeni captive seeking release from the national...
KCRW Morning Edition The FBI and other agencies are monitoring hundreds of Americans suspected of sympathizing with the Islamic State. Fifty-six have been arrested this year alone for sympathizing...
Arab and Muslim former detainees who say they faced harsh jail conditions due to their faith and ethnicity following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks can pursue a lawsuit against former top U.S. law...
More than 13 years after innocent Muslims faced prison abuses, "it is time to move the case forward" against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and others, two Second Circuit judges said Friday as...
A deeply divided federal appeals court in Manhattan on Friday kept alive a lawsuit against former Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller for allegedly approving mistreatment of...
Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants held and abused in Brooklyn federal lockup after the 9/11 terrorist attacks have the right to sue Bush Administration bigs for their detention, the U.S. Second...
On November 13, 12 members of the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) at the University of Texas at Austin peacefully protested a public event hosted by UT's Institute for Israel Studies (IIS)...
Gay rights activists in the East African nation of Uganda say they’ve been persecuted for years, subject to arrest simply for meeting, to physical violence for being gay. In an unlikely twist, their...
Lawyers representing Guantánamo Bay detainees who have been held at the camp in Cuba for up to 14 years without charge or trial have accused President Obama of stalling on his promise to close the...
In September, U.S. State Department officials invited a foreign delegation to the Guantanamo Bay detention center to persuade the group to take detainee Tariq Ba Odah to their country. If they...
