First of its kind to make it to trial, lawsuit delivers rare accountability for U.S post-9/11 torture November 12, 2024, Alexandria, VA – Today, in a landmark verdict, a jury in a federal court found...
July 9, 2015and Carey Shenkman In the struggle against the US government's unprecedented war on whistleblowers and their publishers, there is a pivotal role the United Nations can and must play. By recognizing...
June 10, 2015Earlier this month, the Center for Constitutional Rights, along with other nationally prominent human rights groups, including the ACLU, Human Rights First, and Human Rights Watch, filed an amicus...
October 1, 2012, Washington D.C. – Today, as the Supreme Court opened its term with oral argument in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum , Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director...
October 22, 2023...According to CDCR’s latest records, from June 2023 , there were 3,167 people in segregated confinement in California. The number is a major reduction from levels of a decade ago. According to the...
November 20, 2023...On Nov. 13, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit against President Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III for complicity with...
Emergency Motion Says Ashley Diamond’s Allegations of Assault Prompted Retaliation by Prison Staff April 9, 2021, Atlanta – Today, Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman who is currently suing the...
A challenge to corporate impunity of private military contractors under the Alien Tort Statute for war crimes and torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
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September 14, 2015The Supreme Court seems eager to hear a case on the constitutionality of a distinctively American form of punishment: prolonged solitary confinement. “Years on end of near total isolation exact a...
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