A federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled on Monday that Maher Arar, a Canadian man who claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured, cannot sue for damages because...
November 4, 2009, New York – In response to news of an Italian court’s conviction of 23 U.S. officials for their role in the extraordinary rendition of a Muslim cleric unlawfully seized...
Maria LaHood, Maher Arar’s attorney and senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, speaks on Democracy Now about the federal court of appeals dismissal of Canadian citizen Maher...
Six Chinese Muslims were flown from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Pacific island nation of Palau, as part of the Obama administration's effort to close the prison. Three of...
Judges of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 7-4 to uphold a decision by a lower court judge dismissing a lawsuit brought by Maher Arar, a Syrian-born man who was detained in 2002 and sent...
November 3, 2009 New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced that five men who had been living in New York and were ultimately deported won a $1.26 million settlement...
November 2, 2009, New York – Today, a federal Court of Appeals dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials for their role in sending him to Syria to be tortured...
In signing the Defense Authorization Act, President Obama confirmed Wednesday that he plans to keep the controversial military commissions alive. With comment by Center for Constitutional Rights...
October 28, 2009, New York – The following quote can be attributed to Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vincent Warren in response to President Obama’s signing of new...
The Supreme Court set the stage Tuesday for another clash with the president -- this time Barack Obama instead of George W. Bush -- over detainees in the war on terrorism and whether a judge can...
