While many of the interrogation methods employed are torture, this term is meant to carve out a space for "new" torture, this is such a big issue that simply lumping it with torture in general would muddy the waters.
When an upstate imam named Yassin Aref was convicted on a suspect terrorism charge, he was sent to a secretive prison denounced by civil libertarians as a Muslim quarantine.
Last updated in April 2023 780 men and boys, all of them Muslim, have been imprisoned over time at Guantánamo since January 2002. 86 percent were sold to the United States during a time when the U.S...
June 30, 2014, Richmond, VA – Today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that victims of torture and abuse in Abu Ghraib prison could pursue legal claims for their abuse against private...
By ERICA GOODE More than 200 inmates at Pelican Bay, California’s toughest prison, have spent over a decade locked in windowless 8-foot-by-12-foot cells for 22 hours or more a day. Dozens more have...
The FBI has used the No Fly List to coerce American Muslims into spying on their community. In mid-April, after an eight-year, "Kafkaesque" ordeal implicating its vast architecture of official...
Join grassroots activists, human rights organizations, and advocates for the detained men in holding President Obama to his promise by taking action. Together, we say “Not another broken...
Ten years ago, the shocking photos of U.S. military personnel humiliating and torturing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib sparked global outcry as well as national hearings, investigations and finger...
NEW YORK -- Justice Department lawyers faced tough questioning from federal judges Thursday over whether former high-level officials like John Ashcroft and Robert Mueller III can be held accountable...
