February 23, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released a report on the current conditions in Camps 5, 6, and Echo following the press conference today of Adm. Patrick M...
David Hicks David Hicks is an Australian citizen and one of the first men detained at Guantánamo Bay after 9/11. During the five and a half years he spent at Guantánamo, he was subjected to some of...
Updated: June 1, 2015
Background : From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights has been on...
Updated: April 25, 2017
May 23, 2016Last September, in Ashker v. Governor of California , California prisoners reached an historic settlement agreement with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) that is...
CCR is co-sponsoring rally on September 17, 2012 at 5pm by the Human Rights Coalition to abolish Solitary Confinement in Pennsylvania prisons. Multiple studies confirm that solitary confinement is...
Updated: September 14, 2012
April 21, 2017One day in February 2007, Rachel Meeropol stumbled upon a news story about a “secretive” and perhaps illegal prison unit “isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern prisoners,” which had sprung up like newly...
For information about the current sitution at Guantánamo, please visit: ccrjustice.org/closegitmo "It's kind of like having their own apartment." Camp 6 Guard, Guantánamo Bay...
Updated: October 9, 2014
Download CCR's report on current Guantanamo conditions . After over seven years of unlawful executive detention, the approximately 240 men who remain imprisoned at the U.S. Naval Base at Guant...
March 4, 2013, New York – As part of its ongoing lawsuit to force public access to documents in the court-martial of PFC Bradley Manning, Center for Constitutional Rights v. United States , CCR...
November 2012CCR Executive Director Vince Warren discusses Guantanamo, military tribunals, and the rule of law in the New York Times. Guantánamo was an international symbol of lawlessness and abuse in 2008 when...
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