..."Since 9/11, all manner of legitimate protests have been characterized by law enforcement of all stripes as acts of terrorism," Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional...
Earlier this year, a man named Mohammed Bawazir, one of dozens of remaining Guantanamo detainees whom the Obama administration has cleared for release and is working to transfer, rejected an offer of...
...A leading constitutional rights attorney calls the action "21st century McCarthyism." Baher Azmy, the legal director of the New York-based nonprofit Center for Constitutional Rights, said that...
Legislators in states throughout the U.S. are trying to push through pro-Israel bills that would punish Palestinian human rights advocates who endorse boycotts like those organized in order to combat...
A day after receiving abundant praise for his latest executive order, Gov. Andrew Cuomo weathered the backlash. ... ... On Monday, civil liberties groups who have objected to similar anti-boycott...
... In the years since Yousry’s arrest and trial, the U.S. government has struggled to find competent Arabic-language translators. In sensitive legal cases, like the ongoing military-court hearings...
Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered outside the office of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday, protesting a new pro-Israel policy that legal groups warn is “McCarthyite” and unconstitutional . Cuomo...
...Baher Azmy, lead counsel in a lawsuit brought on behalf of Muslims plaintiffs in New Jersey who are suing the NYPD over the surveillance program, said that even if Trump wanted to resurrect the...
Long before Mohammed al-Qahtani was suspected of planning to participate in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as the 20th hijacker, Saudi police found him naked in a garbage dumpster in Riyadh. In...
...But Wells Dixon, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights who is representing some detainees, is hopeful the guilty plea provision will be a big help in closing the facility. After...
