A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by 4 former detainees of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison thanks in part to Rutgers Law School professor Jeena Shah who played a key role in reviving...
...One of his lawyers, Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights, is with us to explain the details of that lawsuit. Hi, Wells. J WELLS DIXON: Hi, Sacha. PFEIFFER: Your client, Majid Khan,...
Please join CCR at the film screening of Call Me Kuchu on Friday, April 20, 2018 at 6:30pm at Dweck Center at Brooklyn Public Library - Central Branch. Following the screening, you will get to hear...
Join us for the "Protect the Protest" coalition launch! On Wednesday, CCR will participate in the launch of a nationwide coalition called " Protect the Protest " to challenge Strategic Lawsuits...
When the detention facility at the U.S. Naval base in Guantánamo Bay opened in early 2002, I was a junior in high school. This week, nearly 14 years later, I’m making my first visit to the base as an...
Last week, CCR co-hosted a convening of lawyers, activists, and academics from the United States and South Africa, together with our partners at the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (...
December 26, New York – In response to President Obama’s signing, today, of the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following...
July 1, 2011, New York – Yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department announced that it will drop 99 out of 101 C.I.A. detainee torture cases that had been under preliminary review by Federal...
Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy will be arguing before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Al Shimari v. CACI , a federal lawsuit brought in 2008 on behalf of four Iraqi...
September 23, 2009, New York – In response to news the Attorney General is establishing new policy on the question of the use of the state secrets privilege, the Center for Constitutional...
