June 19, 2017The Supreme Court has thrown out the bulk of a lawsuit from post-September 11 detainees who claimed they were unlawfully detained and abused in federal immigration custody in New York City. A...
On this bonus episode of The Activist Files , CCR Communications Director Chandra Hayslett talks to Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei about Pardiss’s visit to the National Memorial for Peace and...
Updated: March 7, 2023
Rukia Lumumba is a legal professional and transformative justice strategist whose work focuses on the intersection of criminal and electoral justice. She believes that increased community agency will...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Justice for Muslims Collective, and Witness Against Torture as we mark the 18th anniversary of Guantánamo’s opening and bring the offshore...
Updated: December 30, 2019
Join CCR's Lauren Gazzola and others for an evening of social justice, animal rights, and vegan food! The newly formed National Lawyers Guild Animal Rights Committee will hold its first event in NYC...
Updated: September 17, 2013
Victims in Palestine Afghanistan, and Victims of U.S. Torture Deserve Justice Without Delay April 2, 2021, New York – In response to the Biden administration’s revocation of a Trump-era Executive...
July 1, 2011, New York – Yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department announced that it will drop 99 out of 101 C.I.A. detainee torture cases that had been under preliminary review by Federal...
Accountability, Transition, and Justice: The Future Challenges for International Criminal Law Seton Hall's Transnational Justice Project will host a panel of four leading scholars and practitioners...
Updated: February 27, 2012
A habeas corpus petition on behalf of the only Guantánamo detainee who the government has openly admitted was tortured.
Updated: April 4, 2022
by Peter Weiss, Vice President for the Center for Constitutional Rights "Today, it is not merely justice itself, but the idea of justice that is under attack.” The words are those of...
Updated: January 6, 2012
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