In decisions about what cases to take and in our assessment of the outcome of a case, CCR looks beyond a narrow legal lens and considers above all a case’s value to the social movements of which it...
" ne of the remaining few convictions at a military court at the U.S. base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, appears to be on shaky ground. ..." Read the full piece here.
Twelve years ago today, 23-year-old U.S. human rights defender Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer while peacefully protecting Palestinian homes in Gaza from...
Mustafa al Shamiri spent most of his years at Guantánamo wrongly described as an al-Qaida trainer and facilitator, a captive of consequence, until his first parole-style hearing revealed an...
A detainee who had been on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay for nine years has been transferred out of the facility, the Obama administration announced Saturday. According to a statement from the...
Four former inmates of Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison will now be able to sue over alleged torture by United States military contractors. A US federal appeals court reinstated the lawsuit on...
Amid crackdown on immigrants, ICE and CBP have refused to provide records on cyberweapons produced by Israeli companies Oct 30, 2025, New York – Legal groups today filed a lawsuit to compel the Trump...
...Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were released, shocking the world. Now, three survivors of Abu Ghraib...
June 24, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued a case challenging Congress’s unconstitutional defunding of the Association of Community Organizations...
June 26, 2008, New York – Late yesterday, a federal court judge ruled that the government did not have to disclose whether it was illegally spying on Guantanamo attorneys’ conversations. The judge...
