June 2014"When we filed the first case challenging detentions at Guantánamo Bay shortly after the first men arrived there in 2002, we didn’t know what to expect. Family members of a few of...
July 2014"Ten years ago Saturday, the Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that foreign 'enemy combatants' held at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station had a right to challenge the legality of their detention in...
June 2014"When Congress passed the Military Commissions Act in October 2006, one major concern was that the intended targets of the statute - 9/11 plotters and Al Qaeda members recently transferred to...
November 2014“We tortured some folks,” President Obama said recently. I was one of those folks, and today I am at the United Nations to confront the government responsible for torturing me. It is the first time...
By Paul Koring Published Monday, Mar. 07, 2011 3:17PM EST Last updated Monday, Mar. 07, 2011 11:09PM EST President Barack Obama has abandoned the last vestige of his vow to shut the U.S. prison at...
Currently at Guantánamo, the majority of detainees are being held in conditions of solitary confinement in one of two super-maximum facilities – Camps 5 and 6 – or in Camp Echo. The conditions in...
Updated: February 23, 2009
This report released by the Center for Constitutional Rights includes the newest and most comprehensive numbers and lists of detainee status by nationality. The three simple steps are: 1) send those...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Detainees released from U.S. detention in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and Afghanistan live shattered lives as a result of U.S. policies in the "war on terror," according to a new report by...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Four months after 9/11, on January 11, 2002, the U.S. military flew 20 prisoners from Afghanistan to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. More would soon follow, as would allegations...
Updated: January 11, 2010
The Center for Constitutional Rights is pleased to announce a monthly newsletter: the Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative News Briefing. The newsletter, which will be published monthly in English,...
Updated: January 11, 2010
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