CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (CCR)
Mise à jour le 8 juin 2010
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666 BROADWAY
7th Flooor
NY-10012 NEW YORK
ETATS UNIS
Tel : (1).212.614.6434 / 212.614.6400 Fax : (1).212.614.6499 Email : ccr@ccr-ny.org
www.CCRjustice.org
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This is a feed of the Center for Constitutional Rights’ latest news, press releases, events, and calls to action.
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8 février 2012par Camilo Ramirez
NDAA Does Not Comply With Constitution
Shayana Kadidal, the senior managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, speaks with Homeland Security NewsWire’s executive editor Eugene K. Chow; Kadidal discusses the legal challenges of closing Guantanamo Bay, the legal consequences of the recently passed National Defense (...) 1st Amendment Rights, Expansive Executive & State Secrets, Government Spying, Habeas Corpus and Legislation, Illegal Detentions and Guantanamo, Surveillance and Attacks on Dissent, Criminal Justice and Mass Incarceration, Government Abuse of Power, International Law and Accountability -
3 février 2012par Camilo Ramirez
Federal Court to Decide Whether Former Abu Ghraib Prisoners Can Sue U.S. Contractors for Damages
Eight years after the release of shocking photographs depicting detainee abuse in Iraq's famed Abu Ghraib prison, a federal appeals court in Virginia is grappling with whether former Iraqi prisoners can bring a civil suit against U.S.-based (...) Expansive Executive & State Secrets, Politicization of Government, Strengthening International Law, Torture and Abuse, U.S. Military Aggression, War Crimes Against Humanity, Government Abuse of Power, International Law and Accountability -
2 février 2012par Camilo Ramirez
ACLU Sues To Force Release Of Drone Attack Records
The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal court Wednesday to force the Obama administration to release records related to the killing of U.S. citizens in drone attacks in Yemen last year. Expansive Executive & State Secrets, Strengthening International Law, Government Abuse of Power, International Law and Accountability -
27 janvier 2012par Camilo Ramirez
Florida Legislature Drops Anti-Videotaping Language
The Florida legislature has dropped a controversial provision that would have made it a crime to photograph or videotape on agricultural facilities without consent. Government Abuse of Power -
25 janvier 2012par Camilo Ramirez
Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Threatens Activism
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 (...) 1st Amendment Rights, Government Abuse of Power -
17 janvier 2012par Camilo Ramirez
Gitmo: 10 Years Of Injustice And Disgrace
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. Expansive Executive & State Secrets, Habeas Corpus and Legislation, Interrogation Methods, Strengthening International Law, Torture and Abuse, Illegal Detentions and Guantanamo, Criminal Justice and Mass Incarceration, Government Abuse of Power, International Law and Accountability -
17 janvier 2012par Camilo Ramirez
Guantánamo: Still A Part Of America's Conscience, A Decade On
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. Expansive Executive & State Secrets, Habeas Corpus and Legislation, Interrogation Methods, Strengthening International Law, Torture and Abuse, Illegal Detentions and Guantanamo, Criminal Justice and Mass Incarceration, Government Abuse of Power, International Law and Accountability -
11 janvier 2012par Camilo Ramirez
Guantánamo at 10: The Defeat Of Liberty By Fear
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 own constitution in the name of defending (...) 1st Amendment Rights, Expansive Executive & State Secrets, Habeas Corpus and Legislation, Interrogation Methods, Politicization of Government, Racial Discrimination, Strengthening International Law, Torture and Abuse, Illegal Detentions and Guantanamo, Rendition & Ghost Detentions, Criminal Justice and Mass Incarceration, Government Abuse of Power, International Law and Accountability -
10 janvier 2012par Camilo Ramirez
Lawsuit Seeks Disclosure of Guantánamo Interrogation Videos
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. Expansive Executive & State Secrets, Habeas Corpus and Legislation, Interrogation Methods, Strengthening International Law, Torture and Abuse, Illegal Detentions and Guantanamo, Criminal Justice and Mass Incarceration, Government Abuse of Power, International Law and Accountability -
10 janvier 2012par Camilo Ramirez
'Tortured' Guantánamo Bay Prisoner Seeks Release of Secret Videos
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 former Bush administration official.The suit comes 10 years after the first (...) Habeas Corpus and Legislation, Interrogation Methods, Strengthening International Law, Torture and Abuse, Illegal Detentions and Guantanamo, Government Abuse of Power, International Law and Accountability
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