July 13, 2015[caption align="right"] Delivering statement before UN working group on transnational corporations with respect to human rights.[/caption] I’ve just returned from the inaugural session of a United...
May 22, 2020... Rachel Meeropol, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights also representing the class, tells The Progressive that prison officials informed her that they had “taken some...
October 21, 2016To mark the 23rd of the month, this Sunday, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to...
Eight years ago this Monday, the Guantánamo Bay Detention Center opened its doors to a dark chapter in American history under the Bush administration - one marked by torture, inhuman...
Updated: January 7, 2010
January 29, 2009, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the Washington College of Law filed the final brief in a civil...
Djamel Ameziane (Photo by Debi Cornwall) A refugee from Algeria, Djamel Ameziane was detained in Guantánamo Bay from 2002 – 2013. Djamel was born into a large, close-knit Berber family that...
Updated: December 7, 2015
November 1, 2023...In the United States, the highest levels of power have long supported voices backing Israel and its military. Now, supporters of Palestine fear the war presents an opportunity for supporters of...
September 3, 2013, New York – Today, in a case filed on behalf of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), attorneys argued that video recordings of CCR client Mohammed al Qahtani at...
July 14, 2017Last month, I took my first trip to the US military detention camp at Guantánamo Bay to visit Sufyian Barhoumi. As a military handler drove me and my colleagues from the Center for Constitutional...
August 23, 2017To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend isolated in special housing units, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison...
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