This week, CCR welcomed its 2016 Class of Ella Baker Summer Legal Interns. Each year, CCR receives hundreds of applications from students around the world interested in learning from us and growing...
On September 14, 2007, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) co-counsel argued the appeal of the first case filed by Guantanamo detainees seeking to hold U.S. officials accountable for the physical...
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights today issued the following response to a statement by Adam Szubin, Director of the Office of Foreign...
July 26, 2010 -Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement concerning the Algerian government’s release of former Guantánamo detainee Abdul Aziz Naji...
...The rights activists branded terrorists by the defense minister, Benny Gantz, work on a range of uniformly peaceful civil society projects to improve life in the occupied territories run by Israel...
April 24, 2012, National — After months of pressure from human rights activists, the U.S. government has granted Pakistani lawyer Shahzad Akbar a visa to attend and speak at an International...
But judges invoke “qualified immunity”to shield agents from accountability and uphold dismissal of lawsuit seeking damages October 29, 2024, New York – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second...
Following Iraq's August 2, 1990 invasion of Kuwait, then-President George H. W. Bush began deploying U.S. military forces to the Persian Gulf. On November 8, 1990, while significantly increasing...
Davliatov v. Obama was a habeas corpus case on behalf of Muhammadi Davliatov, a native of Tajikistan. Davliatov was detained without charge at Guantánamo Bay for more than 14 years, despite being...
New York, NY, January 31, 2008 – Today, in federal court in Manhattan, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is filing a companion case to its ground breaking racial profiling case, Daniels et...
