May 13, 2008, New York – Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys learned last night that Military Commission charges against their client, Mohammed al Qahtani, were dropped. He had originally been...
February 6, 2009, New York – Today, in the case of Khan Tumani v. Obama, attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel sought emergency relief for a young Syrian detained at...
May 6, 2008, Washington, D.C. — In a first-of-its-kind hearing, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) attorney Emi MacLean and other Guantánamo attorneys today told Representatives on the House...
January 15, 2009, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released its preliminary analysis of UF-250, or “stop-and-frisk,” data from 2005 to the first half of 2008, the...
September 23, 2009, New York and Washington DC —In response to the CIA’s refusal to either ‘confirm or deny’ the existence of key torture documents, three human rights groups...
April 29, 2009, New York –The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents many of the men detained by the U.S. government at Guantánamo, praised Spanish judge Baltazar...
Source: Outten & Golden LLP NEW YORK, April 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Thousands of African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans have been rejected for jobs by the U.S. Census Bureau during the...
This is a public statement by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation...