February 3, Boston – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged the First Circuit Court of Appeals to strike down the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)...
October 22, 2019, Lacey, WA – Today, human rights lawyers urged a Washington appeals court to uphold a ruling that dismissed a lawsuit against former volunteer board members of the Olympia Food Co-op...
March 2008Article discussing the recent admission from intelligence officials of the secret detention of Muhammed Rahim, and details surrounding his case. Also highlights CCR's Gitanjali Gutierrez speaking to...
Center for Constitutional Rights President Michael Ratner - and the winner of this year's Puffin/Nation Prize - was recently interviewed by truthout on Guantanamo as well as the CIA's destruction of...
November 4, 2009, New York – In response to news of an Italian court’s conviction of 23 U.S. officials for their role in the extraordinary rendition of a Muslim cleric unlawfully seized...
May 30, 2017, New York – The monitor overseeing reforms to the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices in the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) case, Floyd v. City of New York , filed a report today...
The Biden administration does not have discretion to aid and abet an ongoing genocide free from any judicial review, say attorneys June 10, 2024, San Francisco, CA – Today before a three-judge panel...
July 2008A US federal court will not be able to hear the case of Maher Arar, a client of the Center for Constitutional Rights who was sent to Syria by the US where he was tortured, after a federal appeals...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and our co-counsel Van Der Hout LLP for oral arguments before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in our lawsuit, Defense for Children International -...
Updated: May 30, 2024
Click here for a printable version of the factsheet . The release of the photographs and video documenting horrific torture of Iraqi prisoners detained by the U.S. at Abu Ghraib drew demands for...
Updated: September 8, 2021
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