December 2014"Four Afghan prisoners in Guantanamo Bay have been sent back to their home country, the Pentagon says. Shawali Khan, Khi Ali Gul, Abdul Ghani and Mohammed Zahir were repatriated after a review of...
- - Please join us for a short discussion with Pepe Julian Onziema, Advocacy and Policy Officer at CCR client Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) . - - Pepe will discuss CCR’s case against right-wing U.S...
Updated: June 1, 2015
August 26, 2015The recent email controversy at the University of Illinois will likely be a subject of discussion at a federal court hearing Thursday in the ongoing Steven Salaita case. Salaita's lawyers filed a...
November 7, 2016Scott Lively, the US pastor accused of ‘crimes against humanity’ while preaching homophobia in Uganda, is trying in a last-ditch effort to stop the lawsuit. The minister has repeatedly attempted to...
March 20, 2018...A separate lawsuit filed in federal court in D.C. in January challenges the legal grounds for detaining 11 men held at the military facility for up to 16 years without being charged. That case,...
December 3, 2021... “It’s not part of the ‘punishment,’ for people who are serving time, to be sexually abused, harassed and assaulted, day in and day out,” says Chinyere Ezie, a senior attorney at the Center for...
September 29, 2023...“Neither the federal government nor the city of Jackson opposes our client’s request to intervene. We hope that the court will swiftly grant the motion and allow our clients to fully participate...
In this series of related cases, CCR has tackled two sets of legal prohibitions that make it a crime to provide support, including humanitarian aid, literature distribution and political advocacy, to...
Updated: September 8, 2021
August 8, 2016It’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...
May 22, 2013, New York – In response to news today that the Department of Justice has acknowledged killing four Americans in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, the Center for Constitutional...
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