From the stunning revelations of the FBI's COINTELPRO program just a few years after CCR was founded to the broad-ranging surveillance of the post-9/11 era, CCR has consistently sought to expose and...
Updated: September 26, 2017
CCR fights tirelessly to obtain justice for those who have fallen victim to domestic government abuses perpetuated in the name of the so-called “war on terror.” Our challenges to discriminatory...
Updated: September 26, 2017
April 10, 2008, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement on the accountability of top Bush administration officials for the U.S. government...
Join Craig and Cindy Corrie, the parents of Rachel Corrie, for a reading and release of Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie this Tuesday, April 22nd at 7:30pm in Iowa City . Craig and...
Updated: April 15, 2008
Join Craig and Cindy Corrie, the parents of Rachel Corrie, for a reading and release of Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie this Thursday, April 24th at 7:00pm in St. Paul . Craig and...
Updated: April 15, 2008
Zalita v. Bush was a petition for habeas corpus filed on behalf of Abu Abdul Rauf Zalita, a.k.a. Abdul Ra’ouf Ammar Mohammad Abu Al Qassim. Mr. Abu Al Qassim was conscripted into the Libyan Army when...
Updated: March 9, 2017
April 14, 2017“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” Those are the words of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
The Center for Constitutional Rights’ longstanding case, Al Shimari v. CACI , brought on behalf of three Iraqi torture survivors against U.S.-based government contractor CACI Premier Technology...
Updated: October 24, 2024
On April 9, 2010, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a civil complaint with the Department of Homeland Security regarding the mistreatment of detainees at the Port Isabel Detention...
Updated: September 18, 2012
A challenge to corporate impunity for torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
Updated: September 8, 2021
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