March 23, 2022 The Honorable Dick Durbin Chair, Senate Judiciary Committee The Honorable Chuck Grassley Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee Dear Chairman Durbin and Ranking Member Grassley: We...
For the past two decades, human rights advocates in Afghanistan and abroad have called for all perpetrators of human rights abuses in the country to be held accountable. Yet the collapse of the...
Sufyian Barhoumi Finally Returned to Algeria After Being Cleared for Transfer in 2016 April 2, 2022 — The U.S. government made public today that Sufyian Barhoumi was sent home to Algeria, nearly...
... "For more than a decade, Co-Managing Partner Katya Jestin has worked with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Military Commissions Defense Organization to represent Mr. Khan pro bono. “...
...Barhoumi, who lost four fingers in a land mine explosion in Afghanistan, offered to plead guilty to any charges in 2012 in hopes he could receive a fixed sentence and return to his elderly mother...
... "Our government owes Sufyian and his mother years of their lives back," Sufiyan's attorney, Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a statement. "I'm overjoyed that he...
In the 20 years since the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) entered into force on 1 July 2002, conflicts around the world have proliferated, the scale of atrocity crimes has...
Join us in person as a community to celebrate the publication of the Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations book. This launch, like the book, weaves together artwork, poetry, legal...
...One of his lawyers, Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights, is with us to explain the details of that lawsuit. Hi, Wells. J WELLS DIXON: Hi, Sacha. PFEIFFER: Your client, Majid Khan,...
... Majid Khan cannot join relatives in suburban Baltimore because the law forbids the release of Guantánamo detainees into the United States. Credit... Center for Constitutional Rights... Read the...
