Jeremy Scahill: We have lost one of the great rebels, fighters and a friend to the poor and oppressed. Rest in peace Michael Ratner. You made this world better by being.
CCR: For 45 years, Michael brought cases with the Center for Constitutional Rights in U.S. courts related to war, torture and other atrocities, sometimes committed by the U.S., sometimes by other regimes or corporations, in places ranging from El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Guatemala, to Yugoslavia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Iraq and Israel. More here.