November 15, 2007, New York – Attorney, author and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) President Michael Ratner is the recipient of the 2007 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. One of...
November 15, 2007, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an amicus brief in the first Guantánamo case before the European Court of Human Rights. The petitioners in this...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is pleased to announce a monthly newsletter: the Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative News Briefing. The newsletter, which will be published monthly in English,...
November 14, 2007, New York, NY – Last night, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) attorneys and co-counsel submitted the final brief to the Supreme Court in the case that will determine whether...
November 13, 2007, Frankfurt, New York, Paris – Today an appeal was filed before the Frankfurt High Regional Court seeking review of the German Federal Prosecutor’s April 2007 decision not to proceed...
Since the first habeas corpus petition for detainees was filed on February 19, 2002, CCR has helped coordinate a movement of over 500 pro bono attorneys who have filed habeas petitions for more than...
Zalita v. Bush was a petition for habeas corpus filed on behalf of Abu Abdul Rauf Zalita, a.k.a. Abdul Ra’ouf Ammar Mohammad Abu Al Qassim. Mr. Abu Al Qassim was conscripted into the Libyan Army when...
The Center for Constitutional Rights presents… LESS SAFE, LESS FREE “Prevention,” the “War on Terror,” and the Attack on the Rule of Law with authors DAVID COLE and JULES LOBEL Joined on the panel by...
November 1, 2007, New York, NY – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement against the nomination of Michael Mukasey for the next Attorney General of the United States...
