Please join Senior Staff Attorney in our Guantanamo Global Justice Department Gita Gutierrez for an in-depth discussion on the current state of Guantanamo and what is left to be done. She will be...
Updated: May 10, 2011
April 3, 2014, New York – In response to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s vote to declassify part s of a report that details and condemns the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, the...
Join CCR attorney Maria Lahood for a lunchtime talk on "Litigating Human Rights: Can Claims Involving Israeli Violations Be Brought in U.S. Courts?" Maria will be speaking at the Leitner...
Updated: January 17, 2008
Justice Robert Jackson Conference on the Planning for Prosecution of High-Level American War Criminals in Andover, Massachusetts. Peter Weiss, Vice President of the Center for Constitutional Rights,...
Updated: September 9, 2008
February 2009Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the U.S. government. Mohamed was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004 and...
In September 2002, as he was on his way home to Canada, CCR client Maher Arar was sent by U.S. officials to be detained and interrogated under torture in Syria under a program known as "...
Updated: January 11, 2010
June 17, 2015A federal appeals court reinstated complaints in a lawsuit against former Justice Department officials, who allegedly violated the rights of Arab or Muslim immigrants in the immediate months after...
August 7, 2015The Justice Department on Friday sought a third extension for its response to a Guantanamo hunger striker’s lawsuit seeking release from detention while officials considered whether to stop fighting...
February 28, 2016Civil rights attorney Vincent Warren has been awarded the New York State Bar Association's Haywood Burns Memorial Award. He received the award during the State Bar Association's Annual Meeting in New...
June 5, 2016...A leading constitutional rights attorney calls the action "21st century McCarthyism." Baher Azmy, the legal director of the New York-based nonprofit Center for Constitutional Rights, said that...
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