CCR President Michael Ratner participates in panel examining the cultural and political legacy of the al-Qaida attacks and the US response in the decade since.
CCR President Michael Ratner discusses Bradley Manning's April 24 hearing in one of the most important court martial cases in decades. The accused faces life in prison for the 22 charges against him...
President Barack Obama's key rallying message for re-election is "Forward"; as in his purported revival of the economy and promised expanding and fortifying of health care. But in response to those...
The battle for greater access to court martial proceedings against alleged WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning trial went before the military’s highest court Wednesday, with groups and...
During oral arguments in the Center for Constitutional Rights’ lawsuit against the government seeking public access to basic court documents in Bradley Manning’s court-martial trial,...
President Obama’s speech Thursday was eagerly anticipated by those of us who have worked for years to challenge detentions at Guantanamo and targeted killings abroad. As much as we would like...
As Congress begins debate on the 2014 defense authorization bill this week, both the president and the legislature have an opportunity to make meaningful progress toward closing Guantánamo and...
"Guantánamo's military tribunals were not created to try crimes, but to hide them. This system was set up to ensure that the U.S. government's torture program would never face trial, and...
By Omar Farah, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights Like my client Fahd Ghazy, 90 out of the 164 men still at Guantánamo are from Yemen. Over one-third of all Guantá...
Fahd Ghazy is known at Guantánamo Bay as 026, his Internment Serial Number. These numbers were assigned to Guantánamo prisoners in chronological order according to their arrival. Fahd...
