December 11, 2008, New York – In response to the release today by the Senate Armed Services Committee of a bi-partisan report almost two years in the making on the abuse of detainees in U.S...
Today, December 10, 2023, marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This document is recognized for enshrining fundamental and inalienable rights to which all...
February 6, 2015, Alexandria, VA – Today, four Iraqi victims tortured at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison urged a federal district court to reject attempts by private military contractor CACI...
February 12, 2016“Cops need to be held accountable for what they’re doing. They think it’s okay to kill people and not be held accountable. We should all fight for justice together, not against each other,” -...
Spouses, Children of Plaintiffs Are Arriving in New York January 11, 2019, New York – Yemeni-Americans who for more than a year had been prevented from joining their families in the United States...
July 2012The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison who have each spent between 10 and 28 years in solitary...
On July 11, 2017, Defending Rights & Dissent, CCR, the Massachusetts chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and Palestine Legal sent a memorandum to Massachusetts legislators opposing S.1689 and...
Updated: February 21, 2018
District Court Found CDCR Had Violated Settlement, but Appellate Panel Reversed August 31, 2020, San Francisco – Today, men who sued the state of California for imprisoning them in solitary...
Corrie v. Caterpillar was a federal lawsuit filed against Illinois-based Caterpillar, Inc. on behalf of the parents of Rachel Corrie and four Palestinian families whose relatives were killed or...
Updated: November 19, 2018
April 2010Syed Fahad Hashmi: after close to three years in solitary confinement in a federal detention center in New York City, the 29-year-old Queens-born American citizen will finally get his day in court.
Pages
