September 13, 2016Mahmood Khan had no idea that his brother had succumbed to "this poison" of terrorism. When Majid Khan was arrested by Pakistani security forces in 2003, family members — many of whom still live in...
September 14, 2016Confessed al-Qaida foot soldier Majid Khan withdrew a legally clouded terror charge from his 2012 guilty plea Wednesday and invoked President Barack Obama’s attitude toward the CIA’s secret prison...
September 9, 2016...“In the next few months, it will be interesting to see whether the administration uses all of its powers to release the many men left who are not yet cleared but who it has no intention of...
CCR Staff Attorney Omar Farah and Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hana Hussain will discuss the important work of CCR's representation of men detained without charge at Guantanamo Bay prison,...
Updated: October 13, 2016
October 17, 2016Ten years ago today, President George W. Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA). It was enacted to authorize trials by military commission for the September 11 attacks, and...
Noor Zafar is a Bertha Justice Fellow in the Guantanamo docket at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Noor earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as co-president of the Muslim...
October 25, 2016, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights responded to the Periodic Review Board decision declining to approve its client Guled Hassan Duran (ISN 10023) for transfer...
October 25, 2016A U.S. government review board has rejected the release of the alleged Southeastern Asian terrorist leader known as Hambali from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Periodic Review Board said in...
October 28, 2016... Discussing the ruling in an interview, J. Wells Dixon with the Center for Constitutional Rights said he found this interesting. "The District Court acknowledges that with the passage of time...
October 25, 2016...The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents him, called the hearing unfair and said it relied on information obtained through torture by the CIA. "He should not have been...
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