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Tag: Guantanamo

Join CAIR-Chicago at the Global Day of Action to Close Guantanamo and End Indefinite Detention

May 8, 2014
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Please join us in Chicago for a spirited demonstration and march, starting the Water Tower Park on Friday, May 23rd at 4:30pm.

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Posted in Civil Rights, Events/Workshops, Features, Top Story Tagged CAIR, CAIR Chicago, Council on American Islamic Relations, Guantanamo, Obama, prisons

January 11: A Day to Speak Up Against Islamophobia and Stereotyping

January 7, 2014
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A small number of releases of Guantanamo detainees have taken place. The way this is being presented by the Obama administration, and covered in the media, distorts what is really happening, and the whole meaning of Guantanamo. The administration evades the fact that only 8 of the remaining 155 men at Guantanamo were ever charged with a crime, and that certainly the rest should never have been there at Guantanamo in the first place.

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Posted in Events/Workshops, Features, Uncategorized Tagged CAIR, CAIR Chicago, chicago, Council on American Islamic Relations, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Islamophobia

Jan 11th – 11 Years of Guantanamo! Shut it Down Now!

January 9, 2013
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Jan 11, 2013 marks 11 years since US detention center at Guantanamo was opened. Over 700 men have been released while some remain detained despite being cleared for release.

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Posted in Anti Hate Center, Civil Rights Center, Events/Workshops, Features Tagged 8th Day Center for Justice, amnesty international, CAIR, CAIR Chicago, Council on American Islamic Relations, Guantanamo, Illinois Coalition against Torture, March, protest, rally, world can't wait

Federal court allows CIA to withhold information on torture

July 5, 2012
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A recent federal court ruling granted the CIA the authority to withhold information regarding waterboarding and torture techniques used against detainees.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features Tagged Abu Zubaydah, CIA, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Guantanamo, Torture, waterboarding

The DePaulia: 2012 Defense Act ‘detainment policies without due process’ could apply to American citizens, civil rights

January 9, 2012
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Aymen Abdel Halim, the communications coordinator for Chicago’s Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), described the bill as a violation of citizens’ constitutional and civil rights. “This is kind of a widespread action against all Americans,” he said. “What we are seeing is a continued erosion of our civil liberties.”

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Posted in Features, In the Media Tagged Aymen Abdel Halim, Barack Obama, civil rights, Communications Coordinator, DePaulia, Guantanamo, Haley BeMiller, indefinite detention, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA

Associated Press: Rep. defends 'savage religion' comment

November 18, 2009
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“It is outrageous and very sad that a representative of the people would partake in an attack against a global faith,” said Ahmed Rehab, a spokesman for the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “He could have said, ‘a savage ideology’ or ‘a savage interpretation’ or any type of nuance that a politician like himself knows how to do.”

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Posted in Features, In the Media Tagged Ahmed Rehab, AP, Associated Press, Donald Manzullo, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Islam, Muslim, savage religion, terrorists
 
 
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