September 26, 2007, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced that it, along with other human rights lawyers, has filed two lawsuits charging former Bolivian...
A Bitter Legacy Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:00 PM: Reception ( Light refreshments will be served ) 7:00 PM: Screening & Talk-back This screening is free and open to the public. RSVP is...
Updated: January 21, 2020
March 12, 2018WA court dismisses seven-year lawsuit over boycott of Israeli goods [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Friday, a Washington State court ended a seven-year litigation battle against former...
January 18, 2017Today, CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol is arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court in CCR’s case, Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft ) . Filed against Bush administration officials...
March 22, 202118th anniversary of U.S. invasion of Iraq--we join Iraqi calls for redress and demand Biden end militarism On the 18th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we issued the following statement:...
September 2, 2015"'We've been tossed into the societal refuse heap. It's the landfill of humanity.'" It was 2013, and Daletha Hayden was reading aloud from an open letter written by her son. Those were dark days. Ian...
New York and Madrid, April 14, 2011 – Yesterday a Spanish judge chose to dismiss a politically charged case against six former Bush administration officials for their part in creating a legal...
June 28, 2017Gabriel Guzman has dark brown eyes, but it’s difficult to discern when you talk to him. That’s because Guzman, a former Illinois prison inmate, has a hard time maintaining eye contact, one of the...
STRANDED AT GUANTÁNAMO: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS REGARDING INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION FOR GUANTÁNAMO PRISONERS WHO CANNOT BE SAFELY REPATRIATED NEED FOR HUMANITARIAN PROTECTION 1. How...
Updated: January 11, 2010
September 15, 2015Back in June, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed a stinging rebuke to the federal government and a significant victory to CCR and our clients in Turkmen v. Ashcroft , a case we brought over...
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