CCR is thrilled to support Witness Against Torture’s #foreverhumanbeings campaign to raise awareness of the 41 men who remain detained at Guantánamo, including CCR clients. Guantánamo has always been...
“Are we going to pretend they’re less than men and walk away?” This beautiful line from Peace Poet Luke Nephew’s piece, “ There is a Man Under the Hood ,” anchors Witness Against Torture’s new...
CCR has long called for an end to the military commissions system at Guantánamo, a second-class system of justice designed to hide brutal torture committed by the U.S., and a proven failure,...
CCR's Rachel Meeropol , joined in conversation by Reem Jayyousi, daughter of a former CMU prisoner and member of National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF), will discuss the Communications...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain will join this panel of Guantanamo prisoner attorneys and advocates who will share their stories and revive the conversation about what is at stake with the...
The corpses pile up like sandbags along the planet’s geopolitical borders. “Perhaps his condition deteriorated and the authorities decided it was better to release him in a coma than as a corpse.” So...
For Abdul Latif Nasser, a Moroccan national held in the US military-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the difference between freedom and continued incarceration was just eight days...
The Trump administration appears to be making its first moves toward fulfilling a campaign promise to fill the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with “bad dudes.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy...
Ramzi Kassem, a professor at CUNY School of Law, and J. Wells Dixon, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discuss why the Canadian government offered a multimillion-dollar...
Last month, I took my first trip to the US military detention camp at Guantánamo Bay to visit Sufyian Barhoumi. As a military handler drove me and my colleagues from the Center for Constitutional...
