February 22, 2019, New York – In reaction to the Trump administration’s determination that Hoda Muthana, a 24-year-old U.S.-born woman of Yemeni origin, who is currently detained in Syria with her 18...
Judge Rejects Latest Efforts by Private Contractor to Have Case Dismissed February 27, 2019, Alexandria, VA – Today, a federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by survivors of torture at the...
... Some of the inmates who filed the lawsuit, with assistance from the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, say they suffered abuse mirroring some of the most well-documented incidents...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents the Iraqis pursuing the lawsuit, stated in a press release, “Judge Leonie Brinkema’s rejection of CACI’s latest motions means that, nearly 15...
US District Judge Leonie Brinkema on Wednesday allowed a lawsuit brought by three former inmates of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq against military contractor CACI Premier Technology to proceed. The case...
Breaking through a decade-long stalemate, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that survivors of torture at Abu Ghraib can take private military contractor CACI Premier Technology to trial in Virginia...
...The Associated Press reports that Center for Constitutional Rights legal director Babher Azmy celebrated the ruling and Brinkema’s decision to schedule an April trial. “After the smoke from more...
Rights Group: Settler Rentals Are Discriminatory, Settlements Are War Crimes March 18, 2019, Wilmington, Delaware – Today, Palestinian landowners and West Bank residents filed to intervene in a...
Three Iraqi torture survivors will finally have their day in court as their long-running lawsuit against CACI Premier Technology, a private military contractor that provided interrogation services at...
...“Settlers confiscated parts of these lands,” Mohammad Salameh, a resident of Anata in the West Bank, explained. “We, the landowners, need this land to be able to live on it. We are prohibited from...
