...“I think there’d be good reason for the court to decline, for the same reason that all of the courts have been acting, which is, the court would see there’s no urgent threat here,” said Baher Azmy...
...“This is a historic trial that we hope will deliver some measure of justice and healing for what President Bush rightly deemed disgraceful conduct that dishonored the United States and its values...
January 10, 2017, New York – In advance of the Senate confirmation hearing scheduled this afternoon for Retired Major General John Kelly to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Center...
November 5, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the news that Fawzi al Odah was being returned home to Kuwait from...
February 23, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to the introduction in Congress of the Stop Outsourcing Security...
July 29, 2011, Phoenix and New York – Last night, a year after Sunita Patel, a civil rights attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, was arrested while documenting law enforcement...
August 5, 2008, New York – In response to the hand-picked military jury’s decision in the Military Commission against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Shayana Kadidal, Senior Managing Attorney of the...
April 21, 2010, New York – In response to a government motion today asking for jurors in the case of Fahad Hashmi to be anonymous and kept under extra security, the Center for Constitutional...
June 20, 2012, New York – Today, in response to a raid this week by Ugandan police of a workshop on the rights of sexual minorities, and yesterday’s threats by Uganda’s Minister of...
July 14, 2014, Washington, D.C. – In response to today’s en banc ruling by the D.C. Court of Appeals in Al-Bahlul v. United States , the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the...
