New York, December 16, 2011— The Center for Constitutional Rights, representing Julian Assange, publisher of the WikiLeaks media organization, filed a petition this morning seeking guaranteed...
A federal prosecution, under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, of two animal rights activists for allegedly liberating animals from fur farms.
Updated: November 8, 2017
2026 Ella Baker Summer Internship From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, Israel’s genocide of...
Updated: September 9, 2025
September 10, 2019The Trump administration is separating Yemeni-American families. We're suing to reunite them. [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Thursday, we filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for...
Since its occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem following the 1967 war, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has destroyed more than 18,000 Palestinian homes in the Occupied...
Updated: January 24, 2011
May 13, 2008, New York – Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys learned last night that Military Commission charges against their client, Mohammed al Qahtani, were dropped. He had originally been...
April 11, 2025, Jena, Louisiana - In a decision that appeared to be pre-written, an immigration judge ruled immediately after a hearing today that Mahmoud Khalil is removable under U.S. immigration...
November 8, 2010 , WASHINGTON – The Obama administration today argued before a federal court that it should have unreviewable authority to kill Americans the executive branch has unilaterally...
Doe v. Lumintang is a civil lawsuit brought against the former Vice Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Army, Johny Lumintang. The suit implicates Lumintang in an official policy of repression of the...
Updated: September 25, 2012
Djamel Ameziane (Photo by Debi Cornwall) A refugee from Algeria, Djamel Ameziane was detained in Guantánamo Bay from 2002 – 2013. Djamel was born into a large, close-knit Berber family that...
Updated: December 7, 2015
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