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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.

  1. Florida Legislature Drops Anti-Videotaping Language

    Los Angeles Times, January 26 2012 01/27/2012 - 16:01

    The Florida legislature has dropped a controversial provision that would have made it a crime to photograph or videotape on agricultural facilities without consent.

  2. Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Threatens Activism

    Jurist, January 23 2012 01/25/2012 - 14:11

    Will Potter, an independent journalist who specializes in the topic of eco-terrorism, says the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act classification of activists as terrorists threatens to end activism, in part to stem corporate profit loss.

  3. Gitmo: 10 Years Of Injustice And Disgrace

    CNN, January 11 2012 01/17/2012 - 13:46

    On the tenth anniversary of Guantanamo bay detention center, CCR Executive Director, Vince Warren, discusses a decade of injustice and disgrace, emphasizing the importance of closing the detention center.

  4. Guantánamo: Still A Part Of America's Conscience, A Decade On

    The Guardian, January 10 2012 01/17/2012 - 13:45

    Guantanamo remains a part of America’s conscience ten years later. Despite Obama’s promises, some 171 inmates remain at Guantanamo bay after 600 were released. Only six detainees were ever convicted.

  5. Guantánamo at 10: The Defeat Of Liberty By Fear

    The Guardian, January 11 2012 01/11/2012 - 16:48

    CCR President, Michael Ratner, discusses Guantanamo's 10th anniversary and the deterioration of civil and human rights in post-9/11 America, and the breakdown of a body politic that occurs when a country attacks its…

  6. Lawsuit Seeks Disclosure of Guantánamo Interrogation Videos

    CNN, January 10 2012 01/10/2012 - 16:59

    A legal group filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit on Monday asking that videotapes showing the interrogation of a terror detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, be made public.

  7. 'Tortured' Guantánamo Bay Prisoner Seeks Release of Secret Videos

    MSNBC, January 10 2012 01/10/2012 - 16:55

    A new federal lawsuit seeks to force the U.S. government to make public “extremely disturbing” videotapes of a Saudi national, Mohammed al-Qahtani, whose abuse at the Guantanamo Bay prison has been called “torture” by a…

  8. 10 Years Later, Guantánamo Represents Obama’s Failed Promise

    Boston Herald, January 10 2012 01/10/2012 - 16:49

    CCR Legal Director, Baher Azmy, elaborates on President Obama’s biggest failed promise: how after 10 years since the prison camp opened, and three years after Obama pledged to close it, Guantánamo goes on.

  9. Congress Should Close Guantánamo

    The New York Times, January 9 2012 01/10/2012 - 16:41

    CCR Executive Director, Vince Warren, explains the importance and need of closing Guantánamo, before its travesty of justice continues into another decade.

  10. NY Lawsuit: Public Release of Guantanamo Detainee Video Could Alter Anti-Terrorism Debate

    Associated Press, January 9 2012 01/10/2012 - 16:33

    A lawsuit filed Monday seeks to force the U.S. government to make public the videotapes of harsh interrogation carried out on Mohammed al-Qahtani. Lawyers for the Center for Constitutional Rights said the videos have been…