February 21, 2012, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) requested that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) open an immediate criminal investigation into claims of...
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) is a massive legislative assault on fundamental rights, including the right to habeas corpus – the right to challenge one’s detention in a court...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Leili Kashani [Education and Outreach Associate, Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative, Center for Constitutional Rights]: "On April 14, 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder appeared at a...
Updated: June 23, 2010
November 2013By Pamela Spees, Senior Attorney with the CCR who has filed cases in the U.S. related to the 2009 Honduras coup. Pick up any U.S. newspaper next Monday morning, and the international page will...
Plaintiffs Rights Infringed Upon By Laura Maggi THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2011 People who must register as sex offenders because they were convicted of engaging in oral sex for money filed a lawsuit...
"This report reminds us once again that the character of our country has to be measured in part not by what we do when things are easy, but what we do when things are hard. And when we engaged in...
Updated: November 11, 2019
June 26, 2015I last saw Tariq Ba Odah in March, just one month after he completed the eighth year of an unbroken hunger strike in protest of his continued detention without charge at Guantánamo. Tariq’s lawyer,...
August 6, 2015Every four years, the U.N. Human Rights Committee evaluates whether a government is in compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and is following previous...
December 23, 2016To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison conditions...
March 27, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
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