After over 14 years of detention in Guantánamo without charge, Zahir Hamdoun today earned his freedom, transferred along with 14 other men from US custody to the United Arab Emirates. Zahir, a Yemeni...
Two years ago today, Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by Police Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Some witness accounts say he had his hands up and said “don’t shoot.”...
It’s been almost fifteen years since 9/11, and the sweep of Arab, South Asian, and Muslim men from the streets of New York and New Jersey in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. Those of you who...
On Monday, in the same city in which Alton Sterling, a 37 year-old Black man, was killed by the police and three police officers were killed by a civilian, the “Blue Lives Matter” law that...
Recent weeks have seen courts around the country rejecting and raising concerns about voting laws that seek to keep people of color (especially Black people), low-income people, and other...
Last week, CCR learned that Engine 234 in Crown Heights, the fire company of Paul Washington, former President of the Vulcan Society , the fraternal organization of Black firefighters in the FDNY, a...
Ruby-Beth Buitekant is a 2016 Ella Baker summer intern at CCR. Check out her recent interview with the American Bar Association Law Student podcast. I am wrapping up my summer as an Ella Baker summer...
Tomorrow, the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California will take action to bring attention to prison conditions...
Earlier this week, the New York Times broke the news that New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito would be working with the NYPD to revise the administrative regulations contained in the...
The Supreme Court’s June 23, 2016, nine-word ruling in the case of US v. Texas is deeply disappointing. The 4-4 tied decision means that the Fifth Circuit’s preliminary injunction against President...
Originally publised on Medium.com . Whether you ride public transportation every day to and from work or drive your own car. Whether you go to a public school with security guards or an upscale...
Dr. Maha Hilal is the Executive Director of the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms, an organization dedicated to addressing civil and human rights abuses in the War on Terror by directly...
Today is the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in CCR’s case Rasul v. Bush , in which the Court held that men held in Guantánamo had a right to challenge the legality of their...
Tomorrow, June 28, 2016, marks seven years since the coup d’etat in Honduras – the day that former President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped by the Honduran army and then flown out of the country from an...
This Sunday, June 26, is the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture . On this day, and every day, CCR recognizes the courage and resilience of our clients, allies, and movement...
Today, the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison conditions...
As part of CCR’s discriminatory policing , sexual and gender-based violence , and LGBTQI persecution work, CCR successfully challenged Louisiana’s requirement that those charged under the archaic and...
Lawyer, professor, and writer Jonathan Hafetz shares his memories of late CCR President Emeritus Michael Ratner and the enduring mission of efforts to close Guantánamo, which is further explored in...
On Monday night, friends, family, colleagues, and clients gathered to remember CCR's late president emeritus Michael Ratner. Many of them touched on Michael's and CCR's guiding belief of success...
Today in Albany a Civil Service Commission is meeting to consider a cadet program aimed at increasing racial and gender diversity in the New York City Fire Department. The proposed program grew out...
