June 30, 2015, New York – Today, attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) responded to the Obama administration’s long-awaited announcement that it had appointed a new official at the...
Royal Dutch Shell, plc (Shell) began oil production in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1958 and has a long history of working closely with the Nigerian government to quell popular opposition to...
Updated: July 21, 2010
The principle of universal jurisdiction allows the national authorities of any state to investigate and prosecute people for serious international crimes even if they were committed in another...
Updated: September 8, 2021
UNDISCIPLINED, UNPUNISHED: Summary of the Report on the NYPD’s Disciplinary System On September 23, 2024, the Hon. Analisa Torres, a federal court judge in the NYPD stop-and-frisk cases, published an...
Updated: November 12, 2024
A version of this article was originally posted by CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren on Huffington Post on November 11, 2010 Hammurabi, Moses, Justinian and Solon -- four titans of justice --...
Updated: December 1, 2010
June 2, 2017...Hawkins said the Defense Department's copy also is particularly important because it provides evidence that could be used in the military commission trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees. A military...
In Washington, D.C, on June 13, 2005, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that prison officials cannot confine inmates in long term solitary confinement in a supermaximum prison without...
January 11, 2021Biden News: Biden must take swift action to close the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison [caption align="right"] [/caption] Today marks the beginning of the 20th shameful year of Muslim men being...
October 7, 2008, New York – Today, for the first time, a federal court ordered the release into the United States of 17 innocent Uighur men who have been imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay for nearly seven...
April 13, New York – In response to the Trump administration dropping the 21,600-pound GBU-43/B bomb in Afghanistan, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: Not even 100...
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