ATTORNEYS ARGUE MILITARY COMMISSIONS BILLS WOULD ALLOW FOR LIFELONG DETENTION WITHOUT TRIAL, TORTURE WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY - On September 14, 2006, the Center for Constitutional Rights released Faces of Guantánamo, a report offering a revealing glimpse of the lives of men currently detained at Guantánamo. While recent news has focused on information about the 14 "high-value" detainees recently transferred from secret CIA prisons abroad to Guantánamo, the realities for more than 450 detainees already imprisoned at the base have been pushed to the background. Faces of Guantánamo highlights the cases of n
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GUANTANAMO DETAINEES IN COURT TODAY TO ARGUE FOR RIGHT TO A SPEEDY TRIAL IN THE U.S. - On September 11, 2006, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenged the orders staying the cases of a dozen Guantánamo detainees in the D.C. Circuit Court. All of the men-10 ethnic Uighurs, a refugee arrested in Afghanistan, and an Egyptian man who fled persecution in Egypt-have been held for more than four years without charge. Although the District Court previously ruled that the government must notify the court and detainees' counsel 30 days before a detainee is moved - to allow en
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CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS CHALLENGES NSA'S WARRANTLESS DOMESTIC SPYING PROGRAM - On September 5, 2006, attorneys associated with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) will ask federal district judge Gerard Lynch to grant a motion for summary judgment and issue an injunction to end the National Security Agency's (NSA) warrantless domestic spying program. The argument arises in the case of CCR v. Bush, the lawsuit brought by the CCR on January 17 of this year to challenge the NSA's surveillance of persons within the United States without judicial approval or statutory au
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