SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO HEAR RENDITION CASE- On October 9, 2007, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) criticized the unanimous decision by the Supreme Court not to hear the case of Khaled El-Masri, the German citizen illegally picked up by the CIA as part of the government’s program of “extraordinary rendition” and sent to be tortured in a case of mistaken identity.

NEW REVELATIONS ABOUT SECRET TORTURE AUTHORIZATIONS FROM DOJ- On October 4, 2007, The New York Times reported that the U.S. government is still holding people at CIA black sites after purporting to end the program a year ago, and is generating secret memos to propagate a program of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" that in reality qualify as torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

Blackwater USA Sued for Firing on Iraqi Civilians, According to Legal Team for Injured Survivor and Families of Three Killed- On October 11, 2007, a legal team including the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sued Blackwater USA, the private military contractor whose heavily armed personnel allegedly opened fire on innocent Iraqi civilians in Nisoor Square in Baghdad on Sept. 16.

U.S. GOVERNMENT FILES OPPOSITION BRIEF IN CCR GUANTÁNAMO SUPREME COURT CASE- On October 9, 2007, the U.S. government filed its opposing brief in the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Supreme Court case that will decide once again whether the Guantánamo detainees have the right to challenge their detention.

FORMER GHOST DETAINEE AT GUANTÁNAMO TO RECEIVE LAWYERS- On September 28, 2007, attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a visit request with the Defense Department to see their client, Majid Khan, who was transferred one year ago from secret CIA detention to Guantánamo.

68 MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND LEGAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS CALL FOR GUANTÁNAMO DETAINEES AT RISK OF BEING TRANSFERRED TO TORTURE IN HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSING COUNTRIES TO BE RESETTLED IN THE EUROPEAN UNION - Strasbourg (France), Sept. 26, 2007 – Today, at a press conference held at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, 68 members of the European Parliament, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) called on the European Union to resettle Guantánamo detainees at risk of being transferred to countries where they are likely to face persecution and torture.

HUMAN RIGHTS LAWSUITS BROUGHT AGAINST FORMER BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT AND MINISTER OF DEFENSE FOR COMPLICITY IN ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS- September 26, 2007, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced that it, along with other human rights lawyers, has filed two lawsuits charging former Bolivian President Gonzalo Daniel Sánchez de Lozada Sánchez Bustamante and former Bolivian Minister of Defense Jose Carlos Sánchez Berzaín for their roles in the killing of civilians during popular protests against the Bolivian government in September and October 2003.

CCR APPEALS CASE CHARGING ISRAELI OFFICIAL WITH WAR CRIMES IN KILLING OF PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS- On September 24, 2007, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) appealed a lower court’s decision to dismiss the case charging an Israeli official with war crimes for his role in dropping a one-ton bomb on a Gaza City apartment building, killing 15 Palestinians and injuring more than 150 others.

CCR ASKS SUPREME COURT TO INTERVENE IN CASE OF LIBYAN GUANTÁNAMO CLIENT WHO FEARS TORTURE IF REPATRIATED TO HOME COUNTRY- On September 24, 2007, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted a petition to the Supreme Court asking it to intervene in the case of Libyan Guantánamo client Abdul Ra’ouf Al Qassim and prevent his transfer to Libya, where he would likely be tortured and possibly killed.

CCR CONDEMNS DISTRICT COURT JUDGE’S DECISION TO DISMISS ALL GUANTÁNAMO HABEAS PETITIONS AHEAD OF SUPREME COURT CASE- On September 20, 2007, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) condemned a D.C. District Court judge’s decision to dismiss all 16 habeas corpus petitions of Guantánamo detainees that were pending before his court. The one-paragraph decision justified the dismissal of the petitions by arguing that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Boumediene v. Bush meant that “[f]ederal courts have no jurisdiction” over the detainees at Guantánamo.