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July 11, 2025
The following remarks were made by Celine Zhu at the Justice Committee's rally + press conference in New York City on July 11: Good afternoon. My name is Celine, and I am an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where we are counsel for Floyd v. City of New York which showed the NYPD was engaged in widespread racial profiling and unconstitutional stop-and-frisk policin g, and we have been fighting for over two decades alongside community groups and families seeking accountability for the NYPD’s practice of racial profiling and unconstitutional stop, question, and frisk practices...
December 21, 2015
In 2015, we continued many long and hard-fought battles against powerful and well-resourced institutions – the U.S. government, the NYPD, the NY Fire Department, the FBI, and the California...
December 11, 2015
By now, much ink has been spilled in rightful condemnation of Donald Trump’s call on Monday for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” The New York Daily News ran an...
December 11, 2015
A year after the Senate Select Committee released its declassified executive summary of the torture program, the grim political reality in the United States is undeniable. Through its inaction, the U...
December 11, 2015
In an effort to quell public uproar after the release of a video showing the murder of Laquan McDonald, a Black teenager who was shot 16 times by a police officer in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel...
November 26, 2015
Today, fourteen American activists with the grassroots group Witness Against Torture are holding a vigil outside Guantánamo prison in a gesture of solidarity with the dozens of Muslim men who remain...
November 17, 2015
Last week’s terrorist attacks in Beirut and Paris left 172 people dead, hundreds more injured, and the world reeling in grief and recoiling in horror. The carnage in Beirut drew little Western media...
October 28, 2015
Today we have filed an appeal to the D.C. Circuit in Aref v. Holder , marking the latest chapter in an eight-year challenge to the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) secretive “Communications Management Units...

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April 7, 2025