On October 28, 2021, Majid Khan read an unclassified personal statement during his sentencing hearing before a Guantánamo military commission. In his words, it is the story that he has been waiting...
Updated: February 2, 2023
On February 2, 2023, Majid Khan was transferred to Belize. He is the first of the prisoners transferred from secret CIA detention to Guantánamo in September 2006 to be released, and the first third-...
Updated: February 4, 2023
Abdul Razak Ali* (also known as Saeed Bakhouch ) is an Algerian citizen who was detained at Guantánamo without charge from 2002 until April 2023, when he was transferred to Algeria. Before Guantánamo...
Updated: April 21, 2023
Saeed Bakhouch, the last Algerian prisoner at Guantánamo, was repatriated to Algeria on April 20, 2023. Mr. Bakhouch spent more than 21 years detained without charge in Guantánamo only to be...
Updated: July 26, 2023
"It has become our destiny now to die without being guilty of any wrongdoing, knowing that even death, which could relieve us from this injustice and this suffering, is unreachable to us. Here we are...
Updated: October 26, 2023
The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to bring attention to our issues and uplift the experiences of those most impacted by the...
Updated: November 3, 2023
As we marked the 22nd anniversary of the prison's opening in January 2024, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined nearly 100 other U.S.-based and international NGOs in a letter to President...
Updated: January 11, 2024
On August 31, 2005, in New York, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) cooperating counsel confirmed that prisoners have begun a new hunger strike at Guantánamo because the Department of Defense...
On October 25, 2005, in Washington, D.C., United States District Court Judge Gladys Kessler issued an opinion in the case of four Saudi nationals on hunger strike at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp...
On September 8, 2005, cooperating counsel with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on behalf of the men currently...
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