WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a landmark human rights case with significant implications for the separation of powers, the Supreme Court today heard a challenge brought by the Center for Constitutional...
Lawyers for Ashley Diamond Welcome DOJ Weighing in on Case April 22, 2021 Macon, GA – In response to the Statement of Interest that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed late this afternoon in...
June 2008Detainees in Guantánamo Bay will have access to a federal court to challenge their detention, according to a Supreme Court ruling in the Center for Constitutional Rights' case. Many are expected to...
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Updated: September 11, 2008
LGBT UGANDA FIGHTS BACK: THE CASE AGAINST SCOTT LIVELY They Will Say We Are Not Here BY Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright | Jan. 25, 2012 | 5:01
Updated: July 23, 2012
Murat%20Samantha%20Bee.jpg Years of lawyerless interrogation at Guantanamo Bay failed to connect Murat Kurnaz with terrorism, but Samantha Bee grills him just in case. Trouble seeing the video? Watch...
Updated: September 8, 2021
June 5, 2020...Katherine Gallagher, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, ended the hearing that saw the appeals chamber allow the investigation to proceed. “In the case of U.S. torture...
Attorneys Say He Must Now Be Transferred From Guantánamo Without Delay March 11, 2022, New York and Washington, D.C. – Today, the Convening Authority for Military Commissions approved a final...
June 2009Royal Dutch Shell, the big oil company, agreed to pay $15.5 million to settle a case accusing it of taking part in human rights abuses in the Niger Delta in the early 1990s, a striking sum given the...
July 23, 2008, New York – Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Senior Attorney Maria LaHood, who represents Maher Arar in the U.S., issued the following statement in response to Attorney...
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