Detainee inside Camp Delta's Camp 4.
Since 2001, the government has illegally detained thousands of people, the most recognized example being the men at Guantánamo. CCR has fought for the right to due process, filing countless cases on behalf of detainees and others swept up in the so-called War on Terror. CCR has challenged immigration sweeps, ghost detentions, extraordinary rendition and every other illegal program the government has devised to lock people up and throw away the key. CCR believes we all become less safe and less free when we trample the rights of others.
The Center for Constitutional Rights brought the first Guantánamo case to court more than five years ago. On December 5, 2007, CCR again represented Guantánamo detainees before the Supreme Court to demand their right to know why they are being held.
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Susan Hu speaks about what it is like to work on CCR's numerous Guantanamo Bay legal battles.
Watch excerpts from the documentary "Guantanamo Unplugged" by Stephan Bachenheimer.
On June 28, 2004, the Supreme Court held in Rasul v. Bush, that the nearly-600 men imprisoned by the U.S. government in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba had a right of access to the federal courts, via…
Abdul Ra’ouf Ammar Mohammad Abu Al Qassim is a Libyan refugee who has been detained in Guantánamo for almost six years. He has two cases pending: Zalita v. Bush, a habeas corpus petition, and Zalita…
May 6, 2008, Washington, D.C. — In a first-of-its-kind hearing, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) attorney Emi MacLean and other Guantánamo attorneys today told Representatives on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight about the… Read More >>
United States of America v. Osama Awadallah is a lawsuit in which the Center for Constitutional Rights defended Osama Awadallah against charges of making two false material declarations before a grand jury. CCR maintained that Mr. Awadallah was illegally detained… Read More >>
The Center for Constitutional Rights’ (CCR) amicus brief challenged the government's position that a United States citizen, detained within the United States, might be denied all the protections of the Constitution and Geneva Conventions if the executive designates him an… Read More >>
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