One week before military tribunal proceedings are set to commence on January 11, 2006, for young Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, his attorneys delivered a letter to United...
August 28, 2008, New York – On August 22, 2008, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel Baach Robinson & Lewis , filed a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United...
The Center for Constitutional Rights thanks MoveOn.org and its membership for their incredible outpouring of support, and the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Open Society Institute for stepping into...
“We support the ICC in its pursuit of those who've perpetrated war crimes. We see no reason to support deferral [of the indictment] at this time.” — Ben Chang, Spokesman for President Obama's...
February 10, 2009, WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, attorneys for torture victims abused in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere in Iraq asked the federal Court of Appeals for the District of...
March 3, 2011, New York —Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents Guantánamo detainees and coordinates the work of hundreds of pro bono attorneys on legal...
December 11, 2008, New York – In response to the release today by the Senate Armed Services Committee of a bi-partisan report almost two years in the making on the abuse of detainees in U.S...
May 15, 2009, New York, New York – In response to President Obama’s announcement of his plans to revive the military commissions at Guantanamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR...
November 4, 2011, New York, NY – Today, amidst reports that the Israeli navy has intercepted the Freedom Waves Flotilla in international waters and boarded two boats attempting to deliver...
October 16, 2012, New York—Today, in response to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Hamdan v. United States to invalidate the material support provisions of the Military...