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Innocent Civilian Held in Iraq Released Days After ACLU Files Lawsuit (09/06/2005)
LOS ANGELES -- The American Civil Liberties Union today celebrated the release of a long-time U.S. resident who was being held in Iraq by the U.S. military. The release came less than a week after the ACLU filed a lawsuit against top U.S. officials, almost two months after a military court declared Numan Adnan Al Kaby innocent and just two days before a judge was to hear his case in Washington.

ACLU Calls On U.S. Government to Release Innocent Civilian Held in Iraq (08/31/2005)
WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit today against top U.S. officials demanding the release of a legal permanent resident of the United States who is in custody in a U.S. military jail in Iraq after being declared innocent by a military court eight weeks ago.

At Public Hearing Today, ACLU to Argue for Release of Photographs and Videos Depicting Detainee Abuse (08/30/2005)
NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union will again appear before a federal judge Tuesday, August 30, to seek the release of Defense Department photographs and videotapes depicting the abuse of prisoners held by the United States at Abu Ghraib.

Update in ACLU Torture FOIA Lawsuit (08/19/2005)
Following a two-hour closed hearing in New York on August 15, a federal judge ordered the government to reveal blacked-out portions of its legal papers arguing against the release of images depicting abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib.

Diplomats Should Keep their Own Houses in Order, Advocates for Domestic Workers Say (04/07/2005)
GENEVA -- Andolan, Global Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union are convening a panel in Geneva today to address specific concerns about migrant domestic workers employed by international organizations, including the United Nations and the broader diplomatic community.

Global Lens Focused on U.S. Torture and Detention Policies (04/04/2005)
GENEVA - The American Civil Liberties Union today called for immediate action by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights to address the abuse and torture of prisoners by the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq, and at other U.S.-controlled detention centers.

ACLU Calls for United States to Respect Universal Human Rights at Home and Abroad (04/01/2005)
GENEVA -- A delegation of attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union arrived in Geneva this morning to attend the 61st meeting of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. The delegation seeks to bring issues of torture and detention, racial profiling and the exploitation of migrant domestic workers in the U.S. to the Commission's attention.

Citing Growing Abuses, ACLU Intensifies International Human Rights Advocacy in the United States (12/06/2004)
NEW YORK - Intensifying its efforts to hold the United States government accountable under universally recognized human rights principles, the American Civil Liberties Union today announced that it has hired three full-time advocates to apply human rights strategies to the ACLU's work on national security issues, immigrants' rights, women's rights, and criminal justice.