...“It is totally boundless,” Baher Azmy, legal director at Center for Constitutional Rights representing some of the prisoners, told the court. “The fact that someone may have associated with the...
..."Our dangerous experiment in indefinite detention, after 16 years, has run its course," said Baher Azmy, legal director at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), who argued before Judge...
...It’s good to keep these facts in mind, as the Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a new legal challenge in federal court to free the remaining terrorists at Gitmo. ... Read the full piece...
...“So if we have 100 years of war,” as there were between France and England in the 14 th – 15 th centuries, Judge Hogan asked, “can these same detainees be held that whole time?” “Yes, your honor...
CCR is a proud community sponsor of Sanctuary presented by The Dream Unfinished on Friday July 27, 2018 at 7pm. Sanctuary is a festival of music celebrating artists who identify as immigrants or...
Join CCR's Executive Director, Vince Warren, at Netroots Nation 2018 as he discusses the importance of policy and ligtigation in our current political landscpae. The discussion will take place in...
Barack Obama, the former US president, famously promised to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, issuing an executive order in January 2009 to shut it down. But nearly a decade later the prison...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain will participate on a panel at NATSECDEF 2018: Preserving Justice in National Security . Artwork as a Bellwether: Detainee Rights at Guantanamo (1:00 – 2:30...
In this op-ed, Aliya Hana Hussain, advocacy program manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights, explains her work advocating for men detained in the Guantánamo Bay prison that opened in the wake...
... Center for Constitutional Rights attorney Wells Dixon , whose Guantánamo client Majid Khan awaits sentencing in a war court plea deal, tweeted: “I hope this happens! It would clearly strengthen...
