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September 23, 2008, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an opening brief for rehearing en banc with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of Canadian rendition survivor Maher Arar. The filing follows the… Read More >>
New York, September 11, 2008 – This week, the United States District Court in Manhattan ordered the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to provide the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) with all stop-and-frisk data from 1998 through the present.… Read More >>
Albany, NY, September 8, 2008 – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenges the constitutionality of the unlawful tax levied on families who received collect calls at exorbitant rates from their loved ones in New York State prison. CCR… Read More >>
An al-Jazeera cameraman, recently freed from Guantanamo, speaks to Time Magazine about his detention and release. Click Here for the full article.
Defense contractor, CACI, claims immunity from charges that interrogators they supplied to Abu Ghraib were used to torture prisoners. Click Here for the full article.
"The U.S. government has quietly recast policies that affect the way information is gathered from U.S. citizens and others crossing the border and what is done with it, including relaxing a two-decade-old policy that placed a high bar…
"When Mani al-Utaybi fixed a makeshift noose around his neck and hanged himself in a Guantanamo Bay cell in June 2006, the Saudi Arabian detainee had been close to being transferred to his homeland and freed,…
October, 2007
Shayana Kadidal, CCR Staff Attorney, discusses one of our most important ongoing cases: CCR v. Bush, in which CCR has argued that the warrantless domestic surveillance program conducted by the NSA since 9/11 has been violation of criminal law and the first and fourth amendments.
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July, 2008
In its first 100 days, the next president's administration must not
only take action to close Guantánamo, but also address the broader
array of attacks on our Constitution and our rights that have taken
place - from warrantless wiretapping, to the criminalization of
activists, to the unprecedented expansion of executive power. Hear
about CCR's blueprint for the First 100 days and our exciting new
campaign.
On June 12, 2008, the Supreme Court issued a historic ruling in the
combined cases of Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States,
affirming the Constitutional right of Guantánamo detainees to challenge
their detention in the federal courts and undoing the attempts of the
Bush administration and Congress to suspend the fundamental right of
habeas corpus.
After this important decision, what does the future hold for Guantánamo's detainees? For the law? For the U.S.?
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