August 13, 2015In 1980, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals vacated Jerry Hartfield's murder conviction and ordered a new trial. But the trial never happened. Twenty-six years later, Hartfield crafted a handwritten...
Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our monthly vigil on November 2. The November vigil will focus on the case of the Holy Land Five (HL5), a charity...
Updated: October 28, 2015
Mohammed Al-Hamiri is a Yemeni citizen who was detained at Guantánamo for over 14 years, despite being cleared for release in 2009. He was released to the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia on April 16, 2016...
Updated: April 16, 2016
Center for Constitutional Rights Issues Statement in Response to Intensified Attacks Against Al-Haq March 7, 2016, New York – In response to reports from our allies at the Palestinian human rights...
Join CCR President and Pittsburgh Law Professor Jules Lobel , CCR Deputy Legal Director Alexis Agathocleous , and other experts from a variety of disciplines and countries to talk about solitary...
Updated: March 31, 2016
Barack Obama, the former US president, famously promised to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, issuing an executive order in January 2009 to shut it down. But nearly a decade later the prison...
Updated: August 14, 2018
CCR Senior Staff Attorney J. Wells Dixon will join a panel discussion on the current state of the Guantanamo military commissions. The event is organized by the Center on National Security at Fordham...
Updated: February 5, 2019
February 22, 2019, New York – In reaction to the Trump administration’s determination that Hoda Muthana, a 24-year-old U.S.-born woman of Yemeni origin, who is currently detained in Syria with her 18...
Federal Court Monitor’s Latest Report Shows Ongoing Constitutional Violations, Center for Constitutional Rights Responds December 16, 2019, New York – In response to the release, today, of the latest...
April 27, 2020More Buffalo residents sue over discriminatyr traffic ticketing [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Thursday, five Black residents of Buffalo joined a lawsuit against the City over its racially...
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