Wolfgang Kaleck

[1] On November 14, 2006, Kaleck sought, in cooperation with the Center for Constitutional Rights, criminal prosecution charges in a German court against a number of United States officials and military personnel in connection with alleged human rights abuses at the prison facilities Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay on behalf of eleven plaintiffs.

The widely publicized action targeted then-U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and CIA chief George Tenet, as well as other high-ranking Pentagon officials.

[3] In 2017, Kaleck, together with ECCHR, filed a criminal complaint to the German Attorney General against CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel for her alleged involvement in torture.

[5] As of 2022 Kaleck is a scholar-in-residence at the Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice at the CUNY School of Law in New York City.

In addition to his legal work, Kaleck publishes on topics including human rights policy, colonialism, and corporate responsibility.