Habeas Relief Sought for Eight-Year Hunger Striker June 25, 2015, Washington, D.C. – Today, attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) are seeking a court order granting his habeas...
A case brought by four former Guantanamo prisoners against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld seeking damages for their arbitrary detention and torture.
To 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...
November 15, 2012, New York, Paris and The Hague – Today, two leading human rights organizations submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, including expert...
Rescinding Approved Visas Is Part of Broader Anti-Muslim, Anti-Immigrant Agenda, Attorneys Say September 5, 2019, San Francisco – The Center for Constitutional Rights sued the Trump administration...
May 22, 2013, New York – In advance of President Obama’s scheduled speech this Thursday on his administration’s counterterrorism policy, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued...
In 1980, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals vacated Jerry Hartfield's murder conviction and ordered a new trial. But the trial never happened. Twenty-six years later, Hartfield crafted a handwritten...
This Saturday will mark 40 years since political prisoner Leonard Peltier was arrested and charged with the deaths of two federal agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975. Since that time...
