Steven Salaita Steven Salaita is a Palestinian-American scholar and author of several books, including Israel’s Dead Soul , Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom , and Inter/...
Updated: September 14, 2018
Ghaleb Nasser Al-Bihani is a Yemeni citizen who was born in 1979 in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. In early 2002, Ghaleb was transferred to Guantánamo, where he was detained without charge for fifteen years...
Updated: February 17, 2017
David Hicks David Hicks is an Australian citizen and one of the first men detained at Guantánamo Bay after 9/11. During the five and a half years he spent at Guantánamo, he was subjected to some of...
Updated: June 1, 2015
Updated: September 8, 2021
Talal Al-Zahrani and his son Yasser Al-Zahrani. Yasser was 21 when died at Guantanamo in 2006.
Updated: September 8, 2021
Fahd Ghazy Fahd Ghazy is a Yemeni-national who was detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba for 14 years. Fahd arrived at Guantánamo in February 2002. He was only 17 when his nightmare began. Fahd was...
Updated: January 14, 2016
Djamel Ameziane (Photo by Debi Cornwall) A refugee from Algeria, Djamel Ameziane was detained in Guantánamo Bay from 2002 – 2013. Djamel was born into a large, close-knit Berber family that...
Updated: December 7, 2015
The undersigned civil liberties, human rights, national security, and religious organizations write to urge you to oppose H.R. 401 introduced by Representative Walorski barring transfers out of...
Updated: June 1, 2015
In February of 2011, the United States hosted a fact-finding mission by then UN Independent Expert (now the Special Rapporteur) on the human right to safe drinking water. Ms. de Albuquerque carries...
Updated: May 8, 2015
CCR urges the New York State Court of Appeals to hear a case filed by the Nonhuman Right Project, seeking the release of a captive chimpanzee under New York habeas corpus law.
Updated: April 9, 2018
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