Attorney Shayana Kadidal fields questions regarding Vulcan Soceity v. FDNY.
An up-to-date list of major press coverage of CCR's work, "CCR in the News" provides summaries of each article's content, the publication and publication date, as well as a scanned version of the original article. The scanned articles can be viewed or downloaded as pdf files.
Currently "CCR in the News" covers the last two years of our major press coverage.
This article focuses on a new CCR lawsuit against CACI and Titan that accuses CACI and Titan employees of torturing Iraqi civilians detained at Abu Ghraib prison five years ago. You can access the article…
This article summarizes Ahmed Ghalaini's indictment charges as well as his history of being arrested and detained by the CIA. It posits that Ahmed will be tried in the military tribunal for conspiracy, murder and…
Article discussing of Ahmed Ghalaini's indictment charges as allegedly helping to plan the US embassy bombing in Tanzania during 1998, and the details and problems of using military tribunals to hear his case.
Discussion about the inclusion of testimony extracted from Guantanamo Detainee, Ahmed Hamdan under conditions of torture while in United States custody. Article claims that decisions taken now in the military tribunals about the admissibility of the testimony would set…
Ten page article highlighitng the discussion around the status of Guantanamo, with a consensus among high level U.S. officials for its closure, yet the continued function as the site for a war-crimes tribunal. Also covers…
Article discussing the difficulty the Pentagon has been facing in expediting the military tribunals, from problems of obtaining lawyers to represent the detainees to figuring out how to mitigate the allegations of torture.
Discussion of the claims by detained terrorist suspects that they were given mind-altering substances in order to induce confessions, along with CIA and Defense Department responses.
Article discussing the practicality of using preemptive domestic anti-terror tactics, illustrating several examples of failed convictions.
The attorneys for Salim Hamdan filed a brief in his military commission asking the judge to declare that Hamdan had been subjected to "abusive interrogation techniques," ie., torture. The article features commentary from CCR attorney…
After all three NYPD officers charged in the killing of Sean Bell were acquitted, many organizations, including CCR and Peoples' Justice (www.peoplesjustice.org) called for significant changes to the way that the NYPD operates. This article…
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