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Residency Program presents: "Why is Guantánamo Still Open?"
A presentation by the Center for Constitutional Rights

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*VLA's Art & Law Residency Program cordially invites you to join Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the /Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative/ at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York City, for an insider's update on Guantánamo and a discussion about where the Center's work stands amidst the following developments:*

*WikiLeaks'* recent release of classified government documents on the Guantánamo detainees, and the sensationalized and often inaccurate reporting by some news media regarding the risk posed by the detainees.

*The Supreme Court's refusal to review /*Kiyemba v. Obama*/, CCR's case on behalf of the Uighur men detained at Guantánamo.

*The court's refusal to hear a case filed on behalf of released detainees who would like their names cleared.

*Obama's decision to try some defendants before the deeply flawed military comission system rather than civilian courts.