CCR periodically writes in-depth reports on critical issues that affect our litigation. We have authored reports on jail expansion in upstate and suburban New York, torture at Guantánamo, extraordinary rendition, and resettlement issues and concerns of ex-detainees, among others.
This list can be ordered by date or name, and filtered by the issues to which the report relates.
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 of torture and…
Introduction
The Center for Constitutional Rights is pleased to announce its new monthly newsletter, the Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative News Briefing. The newsletter, which will be published monthly in English, Arabic and Dari, provides a brief…
Please note: This booklet summarizes Cuba travel restrictions and alerts Cuba travelers to some of the current legal requirements and potential legal consequences they face. It is not a complete discussion of the applicable laws and regulations.…
This Handbook explains how a person in a state prison can start a lawsuit in the federal court, to fight against mistreatment and bad conditions. The Handbook does not assume that a lawsuit is the only way to…
At Guantánamo, Mohammed al Qahtani was subjected to a regime of aggressive interrogation techniques, known as the “First Special Interrogation Plan,” that were authorized by U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Those techniques were implemented…
Victims of the most serious human rights abuses often have no way to seek justice in their home countries. This may be because the government and courts at home are corrupt, or controlled by the…
The Military Commissions Act was prompted, in part, by the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2006 ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld which rejected the President’s creation of military commissions by executive fiat and held unequivocally that…
President Bush’s announcement of the transfer of so-called “high-value detainees” from secret CIA ghost detention sites to Guantánamo was a thinly-veiled attempt by the Administration to re-shape the image of Guantánamo – and the men…
This report is a product of our united efforts. This report uniquely recounts the experiences of prisoners inside Guantánamo Bay prison. Other reports, for the most part, rely on the statements of released prisoners who…
There has been dramatic growth in the number of people held in local jails in New York State in the last decade, with the total capacity of jails in upstate New York and Long Island…
There are dozens of detainees at Guantánamo from “high-risk”countries where there is a potential danger of persecution or torture should they be forcibly returned. At least 20 of these men have been “cleared for release”…
On September 6, 2006, President George W. Bush revealed that the United States runs a system of secret detention in the “War on Terror,” but he did not disclose how many individuals were secretly detained.…
Composite statement: Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed All three men come from Tipton in West Midlands, United Kingdon a poor area with a small community of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin. The school all three…
Delicious
Digg
Reddit
Magnoliacom
Newsvine
Furl
Facebook
Google
Yahoo
Technorati
Icerocket