The Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) is a massive legislative assault on fundamental rights, including the right to habeas corpus – the right to challenge one’s detention in a court...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Habeas corpus, or the Great Writ, is the legal procedure that keeps the government from holding you indefinitely without showing cause. When you challenge your detention by filing a habeas corpus...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Soon after September 11, reports began appearing that people were being picked up around the world and held by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). These people weren’t being held by their...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Since 1999, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has been fighting on the ground and in the courts to end the exploitative telephone contract between New York State and MCI/Verizon which...
Updated: January 11, 2010
AL ODAH/BOUMEDIENE LEGAL ARGUMENT AND IMPLICATIONS Boumediene v. Bush: Whether the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Pub. L. No. 109-366, 120 Stat. 2600, validly stripped federal court jurisdiction...
Updated: July 19, 2010
On April 18, 1996, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shelled a United Nations (UN) compound in Qana, Lebanon, killing over 100 civilians and wounding hundreds more. Approximately 800 civilians had...
Updated: July 22, 2010
Since its occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem following the 1967 war, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has destroyed more than 18,000 Palestinian homes in the Occupied...
Updated: January 24, 2011
The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 27, 2006. The law was pushed through Congress by wealthy biomedical...
Updated: December 16, 2011
September 2006Government commission in Canada ruled that Maher Arar is not a terrorist/White House seeking to revoke right of habeas corpus to non-citizens held in US custody outside of the US.
February 2006Maher Arar is seeking acknowledgement from the U.S. government that his torture was wrong.
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