December 11, 2020... Diala Shamas, a human rights attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represented the plaintiffs, shared a pair of videos on social media in which Tanvir describes how he was...
February 17, 2021... A case before Commonwealth Court could impact the lives of more than a thousand people incarcerated in Pennsylvania prisons. WLVR reporter Tyler Pratt reports the Center for Constitutional Rights...
August 18, 2026...“At its core, this case is about whether public officials can weaponize a statute intended to protect survivors of intimate partner violence at their workplace against their constituents, in order...
January 19, New York – Today, the Periodic Review Board (PRB) announced its decision to approve Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) client Zahir Hamdoun for transfer from Guantánamo. Mr. Hamdoun,...
January 9, 2012, Washington, D.C. – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking public disclosure of video tapes of Mohammed al...
Center for Constitutional Rights ● Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute With the CO-SPONSORSHIP OF the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE IN PRACTICE:...
Updated: September 21, 2011
Still “Much Work to Be Done” August 7, 2015, New York – Today, the court-appointed monitor overseeing reforms of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices submitted two reform policies – on racial...
February 1, 2011, New York and San Francisco – Last night the federal district court in San Francisco dismissed CCR v. Obama , a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)...
December 17, 2012, New York – Today, attorneys announced the settlement of a home raids case against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Seven men and women and one child brought the...
May 3, 2010 - Earlier this week our beloved son and brother Fahad pleaded guilty to a single charge of material support for terrorism. He took the plea after spending four years in prison, three of...
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