Silent protest during a Senate hearing on Guantanamo Bay.
By getting involved CCR supporters sent tens of
thousands of letters to Congress and other targets, convinced a New
York State Supreme Court judge to revoke the plea
bargain he had accepted for Emanuel “Toto” Constant the Haiti
paramilitary leader and human rights abuser.
This list displays actions you can take today, from demanding that Congress restore habeas corpus and close
Guantánamo, to asking a German federal prosecutor take up our case against
Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales or asking Condoleezza Rice to prevent
one of our clients from being sent home to Libya to be tortured.
Sort this list to find ways to act on the issues most important to you.
On November 12, 2009, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit against the United States government in an effort to derail an insidious legislative move to target, attack and crush progressive organizations.
This week the international community has a chance to change course in the fight for justice and peace in the Middle East. We need your help to make it happen.
While most people know the names of the principal players on the “Torture Team” – Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice – there are many more members of the team who must be investigated and prosecuted.…
News reports are now saying the Attorney General is close to appointing a Special Prosecutor, but it doesn’t look like good news. Insiders say Eric Holder wants to limit the scope of the prosecutor’s investigation…
The U.S. Senate is in the process of debating the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2010. The NDAA currently includes a provision that bans the use of private military contractors from conducting interrogations of detainees. Also, an…
In April, the Bush administration’s “torture memos” as well as reports by the Senate Armed Services Committee and the International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed that doctors and psychologists have been directly involved in…
Single-carrier collect call systems are the norm for telephone service in prisons across the United States. People in prison may only call collect, and loved ones who accept the calls must accept the terms dictated…
The memos were intended to provide legal cover for officials to carry out abhorrent, illegal and ineffective techniques that were approved at the highest levels of the Bush administration in violation U.S. and international law and the U.S.…
This week, critical legislation has been introduced in both the House and the Senate. H.R. 874 and S. 428, known together as “Travel for All,” seeks to overturn the 47-year old travel embargo on Cuba, a misguided…
March 2009 marked the 6th anniversary of the illegal war and occupation of Iraq, resulting in the occupation, devastation, destruction and the loss of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, American and other human lives. An…
On March 3, 2009, the Department of Justice released nine opinions and memoranda of the Office of Legal Counsel. (see below) In response to long-standing lawsuits seeking disclosure of these memoranda, they were released, laying…
As the atrocities of the Bush administration continue to be exposed, it is critical now more than ever to keep up the pressure and demand accountability from the high-ranking officials responsible for torture and war…
We have launched a campaign calling for accountability - and criminal prosecutions - of those Bush administration officials responsible for torture and war crimes.
CCR issued its own report today - "Conditions of Confinement at Guantanamo: Still in Violation of the Law" - which includes new eyewitness accounts by detainees and their attorneys.
Spc Brandon Neeley, a former guard at Guantánamo, recently offered a lengthy interview regarding his experiences to a testimonials project at the University of California - Davis. (Click here to read excerpts, or the…
As you may know, in October 2008, U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina ruled that the imprisonment of 17 Guantanamo detainees was illegal, and that these men - Uighurs, members of a persecuted Muslim minority…
President Obama issued an important executive order on January 22, 2009, ordering the closure of the offshore prison camp at Guantánamo Bay within one year. It is seven years long past time to close Guantánamo, and…
Take action today to demand justice for the more than 100 Lebanese civilians - half of them children - killed in 1996 when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) intentionally shelled a UN compound in Qana.…
The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) threatens free speech as part of a larger effort by corporate interests to use the terrorism label to constrain social activism. The Center for Constitutional Rights, in partnership with the Civil Liberties…
The more people that know, the better. A surprisingly small number of people know about these issues, and one of the most important and effective actions you can take is becoming an educator in…
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