May 16, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Brennan Center for Justice and 24 other groups and individuals urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to
On Episode 54 of the Activist Files, Bertha Justice Fellow Zee Scout speaks with Ashley Diamond , a civil rights activist, who made a pivotal choice on the eve of her trial in January against the...
Biden, Blinken, and Austin claim “foreign policy” decisions are exempt from judicial review; legal team argues in appeal reply brief submitted today that aiding and abetting genocide can never be a...
September 25, 2012, New York, Berlin and Madrid— A group of international human rights organizations and experts filed a brief today before the Spanish Supreme Court, arguing that the continued...
...A separate case has also been opened in the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is reviewing actions taken by Israeli officials since the war and “conduct that may amount to Rome Statute...
April 21, 2016, New York – In response to reports of proposed new rules for the controversial military commissions system at Guantanamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents men in...
November 15, 2007, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an amicus brief in the first Guantánamo case before the European Court of Human Rights. The petitioners in this...
On August 3, 2009, plaintiffs filed an Opposition to Defendants' Motion to Dismiss for consolidated Blackwater cases. The cases Estate of Albazzaz, et al. v. Blackwater Lodge and Training Center, Inc...
In the summer of 2002, Chinese security officers arrested Doe VIII (whose name is withheld to protect his family), a practitioner of the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong. His arrest was part of...
November 6, 2013, Richmond, VA – Today, in a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel on behalf of four Iraqi men who were tortured at Abu Ghraib, six amici...
