March 13, 2018 New York – In response to news that Donald Trump is replacing Rex Tillerson at the State Department with Mike Pompeo, who currently heads the CIA, and naming Gina Haspel to head the...
May 15, New York – Today, a court-appointed facilitator, Ariel Belen, issued a report on community-generated reforms to New York City Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk and trespass arrest...
April 11, 2019, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement concerning the arrest in London of journalist and WikiLeaks media publisher Julian Assange for...
July 24, 2019, San Francisco — This evening, a federal court blocked a new Trump administration asylum ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had transited through...
November 5, 2019 – In response to today’s decision by Israel’s Supreme Court upholding the order for human rights defender Omar Shakir, of Human Rights Watch, to leave Israel, the Center for...
July 2, 2020, New York — In response to the New York City budget that was passed by the City Council July 1, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following statement: It is...
April 20, 2021, New York – In response to the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd moments after the Columbus police murder of 16-year-old Ma’...
Guled Hassan Duran Is First So-Called “High Value” Detainee to Be Approved January 10, 2022 – In response to news that our client Guled Hassan Duran was approved for transfer by a periodic review...
Attorneys Say He Must Now Be Transferred From Guantánamo Without Delay March 11, 2022, New York and Washington, D.C. – Today, the Convening Authority for Military Commissions approved a final...
Recent move by Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group reveal further proof of the private prison industry’s culture of secrecy Today, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and The GEO...
