A lawsuit brought on behalf of three journalists against the City of St. Paul, the City of Minneapolis, Ramsey County, and multiple law enforcement officers to challenge the targeting by law...
Updated: October 7, 2011
United States v. Dellinger is a criminal case in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenged the Justice Department’s misuse of the grand jury process in conducting its investigation...
Updated: October 9, 2007
July 12, 2017Immigration lawyers and advocates filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and other government officials alleging that border officers have violated the...
Saeed Bakhouch, the last Algerian prisoner at Guantánamo, was repatriated to Algeria on April 20, 2023. Mr. Bakhouch spent more than 21 years detained without charge in Guantánamo only to be...
Updated: July 26, 2023
June 2, 2015The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency used a wider array of sexual abuse and other forms of torture than was disclosed in a Senate report last year, according to a Guantanamo Bay detainee turned...
Freedom Flicks will partner with DOC NYC on November 16th to screen the award-winning documentary Soft Vengeance . SOFT VENGEANCE is a film about Albie Sachs, a lawyer, writer, art lover and freedom...
Updated: October 20, 2014
Briggs v. Goodwin is a case in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) led a team of lawyers in successfully defending leaders of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, known as the “...
Updated: October 9, 2007
March 2012U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis ruled that New York City could be on the hook for as much as $128.7 million in a lawsuit alleging it used a racially discriminatory test to evaluate candidates...
New Perspectives on Guantánamo: Art, Activism and Advocacy, will explore the history of the United States’ use of GTMO in the 1990s to house individuals from Haiti and Cuba who fled political...
Updated: September 9, 2014
December 11, 2015A year after the Senate Select Committee released its declassified executive summary of the torture program, the grim political reality in the United States is undeniable. Through its inaction, the U...
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