The Obama administration backed the Bush administration's arguments in a lawsuit involving the practice of seizing terror suspects abroad and sending them to third countries for questioning. The case...
Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the U.S. government. Mohamed was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004 and...
The federal government is paying $1.2 million to settle the cases of five Muslim immigrants who sued over their detention and treatment in a Brooklyn jail after 9/11, when hundreds of noncitizens...
A federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled on Monday that Maher Arar, a Canadian man who claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured, cannot sue for damages because...
A Canadian engineer who claims he was sent by the United States to Syria to be tortured in 2002 cannot sue U.S. officials in federal court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said...
US “extraordinary rendition” was essentially put on trial for the first time - in Italy - and this week the court rendered a guilty verdict. This is the second major decision to come down this week...
In Turkmen v. Ashcroft , a case filed on behalf of Arab and Muslim non-citizens who were subjected to prolonged and abusive detention in the wake of 9/11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second...
Advocacy groups are suing the federal government to uncover records related to the Secure Communities program, which has come under fire locally this week for a case involving a Prince George's...
The Center for Constitutional Rights filed suit Tuesday seeking records about the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Secure Communities program.
