This piece was originally published by the Electronic Intifada . When the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign dismissed my client , Professor Steven Salaita , from a tenured faculty position...
The Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestine Legal, and the ACLU of Southern California sent the following letter to UCLA today regarding violations of the right to free expression and political...
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...
A few months ago, we told you about a troubling under-the-radar ruling in Munoz Santos v. Thomas , a case challenging the extradition of Jose Munoz Santos, a Mexican national, based on the testimony...
Since 2009, appropriations bills passed by the U.S. Congress have required the funding of 34,000 immigration detention beds per day. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and...
CCR’s long-standing challenge to the experimental prison units known as Communication Management Units , or “CMUs,” got an important boost this week with the filing of two separate friend-of-the-...
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...
This week, Palestine Legal, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the South Florida Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and CAIR Florida sent a letter to Florida State Senators urging them to...
Last week, CCR reposted a new video by dozens of activists about Black-Palestinian solidarity, “ When I see them, I see us .” It draws attention to the parallels between the experiences of...
Here at CCR, we often have the privilege of working closely with independent journalists to uncover civil and human rights abuses. From early in 2007, when CCR first began exploring “the green scare...
That is the cruel and absurd world of Guantánamo, where Tariq Ba Odah , long cleared for release by every U.S. security agency, still languishes in a cell 13 years on, waiting for the State...
This week, Yanar Mohammed, a leading women’s rights activist in Iraq and the founder of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) , testified before the United Nations Security Council about...
When the streets of Ferguson erupted in protest last summer after police officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown six times and Brown’s body was left in the street for four hours, one of the most...
Dear Mayor de Blasio: We understand from a recent report in The New York Times that you will be departing tomorrow on a journey to the State of Israel. According to the article, your purpose is to...
Answer: When the child is Black and the shooter is a police officer. Welcome to America, where #BlackLivesMatter is a trending hashtag, but police impunity is a lethal reality of Black life. There’s...
Long before a national spotlight was cast on the long-standing, tempestuous relationship between police and the Black and Brown communities they occupy, New York City was in the limelight for its...
Djamel Ameziane (Photo by Debi Cornwall ) It was during the escalating violence of Algeria’s civil war in the 1990s that our client Djamel Ameziane left in search of a better life. He lived in...
This week the Center for Constitutional Rights appealed the dismissal of Al Shimari v. CACI , a case brought in 2008 on behalf of four Iraqi civilians against private military contractor CACI Premier...
Pope Francis is visiting the U.S. this week, including a stop at the United Nations in New York on Friday. He has been roundly praised for his pronouncements on climate change , economic inequality...
When the detention facility at the U.S. Naval base in Guantánamo Bay opened in early 2002, I was a junior in high school. This week, nearly 14 years later, I’m making my first visit to the base as an...
