"A military appeals court on Wednesday overturned the terrorism conviction of an Australian whose guilty plea was once hailed as a sign that the tribunal system at the Guantánamo Bay , Cuba, prison...
April 16, 2014, New York – Spain’s Audiencia Nacional is continuing its investigation into the alleged torture of men formerly detained at Guantánamo prison by U.S. officials,...
Planned Giving Options Include CCR in your estate plan and become a member of The Thelma Newman Planned Giving Society. The Thelma Newman Society is named for CCR co-founder Mort Stavis’ legal...
Federal Court Blocks Trump Asylum Ban [caption align="right"] [/caption] A federal court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s new asylum ban last week while we work to get a preliminary...
Lawsuit challenges constitutionality of punishing people who resist forced labor in Alabama’s majority-Black prisons November 20, 2024, Montgomery, AL – Yesterday, five incarcerated workers brought...
September 30, 2011, New York—Today, in response to the news that a missile attack by an American drone aircraft had killed U.S. citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki in Yemen, the Center for Constitutional...
...The question of genocidal practice against the Palestinian people by the Israeli state is an important theme of international debate. The US-based Center for Constitutional Rights set out some...
This article originally appeared in the Huffington Post on Monday, June 14, 2010 An African American man, Curtis Flowers, made history this week when he became the first person in U.S. history to...
...As the humanitarian situation deteriorates inside Gaza , a non-profit in the US is facing a legal battle that could see it lose the ability to be a major source of donations to the UN agency for...
On May 24, 2010 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted Mr. Cardenas’ petition for review. The court vacated the Board of Immigration Appeals’ 8-6 en banc decision...
