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.
Introduction - II. Protection from torture as an absolute and non-derogable right - III. Shift under bush: "the war on terror" undermining the prohibition of torture - IV. The Obama administration and compliance with U.S. obligations under cat - A. The Obama Administration-A Paradigm Shift? - B. Dealing With the Past: Providing Justice For Torture Practices Under the Bush Administration - 1. Duty to Investigate - a) Investigation of the Department of Defense - b) Investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency - c) Investigation of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel Lawyers - 2. Duty to Prosecute - a) Prosecution of the Department of Justice - b) Prosecution of the Central Intelligence Agency - c) Prosecution of the Department of Defense - C. Right to a Remedy and R...
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.
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.
... indefinitely drew swift opposition from rights groups. In a statement, The Center for Constitutio...
He told IPS, "We've been saying for two years now that the government's litigation strategy is to run out the clock on these cases and leave the mess at Guantanamo for the next president to clean up much like the misadventure in Iraq. At every stage the government has tried to maximize delay, with no discernable endgame to resolve the situation. Other legal and human rights organizations have also weighed in on the Guantanamo issue. For example, Human Rights First (HRF) has drafted a report, "How to Close Guantanamo: Blueprint for the Next U.S. Administration," detailing a step-by-step process for closing Guantanamo and dealing responsibly and legally with the detainees. S. Appeals Courts and the U.S. Supreme Court have ruled against various aspects of the Guantanamo legal regimen. T...
...Shayana Kadidal, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) a legal advocacy o...
The George W. Bush administration will long be remembered for its constitutional and legal arguments on behalf of exclusive and inherent executive power. In its extreme form, this uncompromising effort appears to have failed, and may even have pushed the judicial branch to limit executive authority and return to a more traditional insistence on interbranch cooperation in foreign affairs. Ironically, the Bush-Cheney legal legacy ultimately will depend on the Barack Obama administration's public commitments and legal arguments, but early evidence suggests that President Obama's assertions of executive power will rest less on assertions of constitutional prerogative, and more heavily on statutory delegation as well as long-standing judicial precedent.
... military commissions for the Guantánamo detainees; insisted that they needed no authorizat... that Guantánamo detainees "have habeas rights, and that means that they are able to answer charg...Copyright Center for the Study of the Presidency Dec 2009 Provided ...
... INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND OVERSIGHT HOLDS A HEARING ON GUANTANAMO... GLOBAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE, CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. MICHAEL MONE, ...
... against Walgreens, Tallahassee civil rights attorney Kent Spriggs had free time for pro bono w... "the wretched of the Earth," he called the Center for Constitutional Rights, the group that brought the first Guantanamo detainee case more than five years ago. . "I want ...
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