Tucked amid the jagged mountain ranges of Yemen resides the sleepy town of Bayt Ghazy. Home to an idyllic agrarian community, it also provides the backdrop for the heartrending documentary “Waiting...
Updated: November 14, 2014
On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued an executive order which purported to establish military commissions to try those captured in the “War on Terror.” Under the order, the...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Legal Analysis: Boumediene v. Bush/Al Odah v. United States In February 2002, the Center for Constitutional Rights and our co-counsel brought the first habeas case in federal court on behalf of...
Updated: January 11, 2010
FOREIGN INTERROGATORS IN GUANTÁNAMO BAY US Allows Security Forces from Brutal Human Rights Abusing Regimes into Guantanamo; Many Countries Complicit in Abuses at Guantánamo Since as...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Since the first habeas corpus petition for detainees was filed on February 19, 2002, CCR has helped coordinate a movement of over 500 pro bono attorneys who have filed habeas petitions for more than...
Updated: January 11, 2010
In the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which the United States ratified in 1994, torture is defined as "any act by which...
Updated: January 11, 2010
STRANDED AT GUANTÁNAMO: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS REGARDING INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION FOR GUANTÁNAMO PRISONERS WHO CANNOT BE SAFELY REPATRIATED NEED FOR HUMANITARIAN PROTECTION 1. How...
Updated: January 11, 2010
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) is a massive legislative assault on fundamental rights, including the right to habeas corpus – the right to challenge one’s detention in a court...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Habeas corpus, or the Great Writ, is the legal procedure that keeps the government from holding you indefinitely without showing cause. When you challenge your detention by filing a habeas corpus...
Updated: January 11, 2010
AL ODAH/BOUMEDIENE LEGAL ARGUMENT AND IMPLICATIONS Boumediene v. Bush: Whether the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Pub. L. No. 109-366, 120 Stat. 2600, validly stripped federal court jurisdiction...
Updated: July 19, 2010
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