The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to be a member of the Federal Anti-Solitary Taskforce (FAST): join FAST, the National Immigration Project, and the National Immigrant Justice Center on...
Updated: May 12, 2024
The Center for Constitutional Rights’ longstanding case, Al Shimari v. CACI , brought on behalf of three Iraqi torture survivors against U.S.-based government contractor CACI Premier Technology...
Updated: October 24, 2024
December 14, 2017...In a recent study on the mental health consequences of solitary confinement, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Stanford University’s Mental Health Lab concluded that solitary confinement...
CCR has a long history of challenging U.S. war-making and conflict-related human rights violations, both before and since the creation of the war-on-terror narrative. In the 1970s, we pioneered the...
Updated: August 7, 2018
Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign on March 7 for our monthly vigil. The NSJ campaign seeks to raise awareness around human rights and civil rights...
Updated: March 3, 2016
July 2013"On Monday, 30,000 prisoners in the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison in California went on hunger strike to protest solitary confinement and security unit conditions -- risking...
February 6, 2009, New York – Today, in the case of Khan Tumani v. Obama, attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel sought emergency relief for a young Syrian detained at...
Zalita v. Bush was a petition for habeas corpus filed on behalf of Abu Abdul Rauf Zalita, a.k.a. Abdul Ra’ouf Ammar Mohammad Abu Al Qassim. Mr. Abu Al Qassim was conscripted into the Libyan Army when...
Updated: March 9, 2017
December 22, 2010 - Last week, the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony from legal and free speech experts about the possible application of the Espionage Act to the recent publication of secret...
CCR has long had a deep commitment to protecting members of LGBTQI communities from discrimination, censorship, violence, and persecution. Throughout the 1990s, the Center fought for the rights of...
Updated: June 20, 2019
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