May 28, 2014, Washington, D.C. – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Senior Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei released the statement below in response to the news that the Obama...
“You Can’t Sue an Idea,” Say Activists December 5, 2017, New York, NY – On behalf of the environmental magazine the Earth First! Journal , the Center for Constitutional Rights urged a court to...
April 3, 2014, New York – In response to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s vote to declassify part s of a report that details and condemns the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, the...
On publication of contributing editor Scott Horton's report, "Justice After Bush" in the December issue of Harper's Magazine, a panel of legal experts will discuss the methods available to...
Updated: November 26, 2008
February 2009Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the U.S. government. Mohamed was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004 and...
October 8, 2015W hen Palestinian-American professor Steven Salaita received the e-mail that he was being fired from a tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he was crushed. “Everything...
October 11, 2022Four fellows will spend two years at the Center for Constitutional Rights getting first-hand experience in movement lawyering.
January 7, 2019New St. Louis Country prosecutor: "wanteds" practice is uncontitutional In St. Louis and surrounding Missouri counties, police officers have been allowed to issue a "wanted," the equivalent of a...
February 2009The last “enemy combatant” being detained in America is incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina—a tan, low-slung building situated amid acres of grassy...
April 2009On March 30, Senator Patrick Leahy gave five Vermonters a half hour of his time. We were: Martha Hennessy, a peace activist from Weathersfield, John Nirenberg, a Brattleboro man who walked from...
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