Please join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon and Professor Alex Whiting and as they discuss the role of lawyers in authorizing the post-9/11 US torture program. The panelists will speak about...
Updated: February 11, 2015
September 1, 2015In a resolution that could have wide effects, California's prison system has agreed to change how it handles solitary confinement — and to review the cases of nearly 3,000 prisoners who are currently...
October 13, 2015New Jersey Muslims who said they were illegally targeted by New York City police after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks should be allowed to argue their case in court, a panel of three federal...
November 25, 2015My heartiest congratulations go out to the Center for Constitutional Rights and their client Professor Steven Salaita, who deservedly was awarded $875,000--far less than the assumed amount of wages...
March 17, 2016Yassin Aref, the Albany imam sent to federal prison after being convicted of material support for terrorism, is part of a case heard in court this week involving inmates challenging confinement in...
April 13, 2016As Attica prisoner Ahmed Ferhani hangs onto life following a suicide attempt, his supporters gathered at Manhattan's One Police Plaza to shed light on a case that once set New York City abuzz with...
May 11, 2016Michael Ratner, the civil and human rights attorney who represented Julian Assange and WikiLeaks in the US, died Wednesday at age 72, leaving behind an outsized legacy of advocacy for whistleblowers...
June 6, 2016... In the years since Yousry’s arrest and trial, the U.S. government has struggled to find competent Arabic-language translators. In sensitive legal cases, like the ongoing military-court hearings...
October 28, 2016... Discussing the ruling in an interview, J. Wells Dixon with the Center for Constitutional Rights said he found this interesting. "The District Court acknowledges that with the passage of time...
April 3, 2018A U.S. court found former Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada responsible for the 2003 extrajudicial killing of more than 50 people, mostly Indigenous Aymara, in El Alto, Bolivia. He’ll have...
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