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Torture
Human Rights Groups Urge UN to Call for Abolition of “Death by Incarceration”
An activist coalition is urging UN experts to call for the abolition of “life without parole” sentences in the U.S.
The War on Terror’s Detention and Torture Practices Have Not Gone Away
The failure to end secret and arbitrary detention affords impunity for states and state-backed actors to deny justice.
Some Youth Don’t Get to Go Back to School Because They’re Stuck Behind Bars
Many young people of color will spend their entire adult lives incarcerated, in many cases, based on coercion by cops.
Extraditing Assange Would Be a “Legalized” Rendition to US Torture
A pantomime of “justice” and “rule of law” cloaks the persecution of Julian Assange for exposing U.S. war crimes.
Some Guantánamo Prisoners Fear Transfer to US Prisons Due to Brutal Conditions
For years, liberals have called for prisoners at Gitmo to be transferred to U.S. prisons. What if they don’t want to go?
GOP Attacks Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Work Defending Guantánamo Prisonsers
Jackson was one of hundreds of legal professionals in a project that exposed the lies and brutality at Guantánamo.
Supreme Court Says Torture at CIA Black Site Is a “State Secret”
The Supreme Court has denied Guantánamo prisoner Abu Zubaydah testimony on his torture at a secret CIA site in Poland.
Guantánamo Isn’t Ancient History. It Has Become a “Forever Prison.”
I’ve fought to close Guantánamo for 16 years. It should never have opened.
Guantánamo Film Ignores the War on Terror’s Ongoing Tangible Harms
Abu Zubaydah’s story is not about unequal justice, but the absence of justice altogether.
A US Military Jury Is Seeking Clemency for a Guantánamo Detainee
Torture is one of the greatest moral stains on upon the U.S. -- and it happened on our watch.