The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which has provided many of the lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees, said it believed the charges against al-Qahtani had been dropped because he had been tortured. "The government's claims a'gainst our client were based on unreliable evidence obtained through torture at Guantanamo," the group said. According to Clive Stafford Smith, a British lawyer who represents a number of.Guantanamo detainees, [Thomas Hartmann] "was basically telling (Col. [Morris Davis]) what to do and saying, 'Look, there's an election coming up. It's in November. We've got to have prosecutions now against the highprofile guys. It doesn't matter if you're not ready to prosecute them, but we need Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial because of electioneering.' Much of ...
WASHINGTON, May 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A diverse group of private lawyers, led by the Center for Constitutional Rights, who collectively represent over 500 detainees currently incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay, endorsed today's call by a distinguished bipartisan group, including several former government officials, that was joined by several high-ranking former members of the military, for an independent commission to investigate torture. Speaking on behalf of the attorneys, Thomas Wilner of Shearman & Sterling, counsel in one of the first detainee cases to reach the Supreme Court stated:
WASHINGTON - Several Democrats and civil rights advocates charged yesterday that a Republican compromise about the treatment of terrorism suspects leaves the door open for torture and abuse while stripping captives of a basic right to a court appeal. This is a bill that's essentially going to continue to allow coercive interrogations," said Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which has represented about 500 detainees, many of them held for more than four years at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "I find it just shameful as a human rights lawyer who's spent my life suing every dictator in the world over this kind of stuff.
In the Sunday, Sept. 20, edition, Page A8, the story "Retired colonel puzzled by Guantanamo critics" incorrectly gave the impression that the Center for Constitutional Rights, a human rights organization, had represented Toledo psychologist Trudy Bond against the Louisiana Board of Psychology. Nixon Peabody, a law firm in Boston, represented Bond. In the Friday, Sept. 18, edition, Page A14, an editorial should not have said state Rep. Ross McGregor broke with his party on a vote on the state budget.
... $400,000, some of which went to civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, who at the time was aid... and helped set up the legal defense of Guantanamo prisoners for the Center for Constitutional Rights...
WASHINGTON - Obama administration officials are drafting an executive order that would set up a review process for detainees held indefinitely at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the White House said Wednesday. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters that the draft executive order, which has not been sent to President Barack Obama, is in line with procedures Obama broadly described in a May 2009 speech about detainees who would be held indefinitely at that military prison.
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Mercenaries, however, are unlawful combatants if they do not act at the behest of a recognized government.\n Somewhere in the interface between this nation's domestic and foreign affairs since September 11, 2001, a little piece of land on a small island a few hundred miles away in the Caribbean-Guantanamo-emerged as a symbol of the Bush administration's drive to chisel away at our historic laws and statutes, to rebalance this country's tripartite system of governing, and to commit military aggression against populations abroad.
... of law, whether with respect to detainees' rights or U.S. citizens' rights. Each day's headlines tel...In the opinion of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR, 2006a), "when a st...
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