This Saturday will mark 40 years since political prisoner Leonard Peltier was arrested and charged with the deaths of two federal agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975. Since that time...
Jen Marlowe’s latest production, There is a Field , opens with actor Kesav Wable’s back to the audience. Wable plays Aseel Asleh, a Palestinian teenager and peace-activist who was a citizen of Israel...
The 13 th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq came and went on March 19 with little public acknowledgment. Conversely, before the illegal U.S.-led invasion, under the false premise of halting a...
May 31, 2016, New York – In a written decision issued last Friday, a City University of New York (CUNY) disciplinary committee exonerated Sarah Aly and Thomas DeAngelis, two Brooklyn College students...
December 15, 2016, New York – Today, attorneys from Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights slammed extremist Representative Peter King for his call to nationalize the fully...
Accountability for Racial, Religious Profiling Urgent in Face of Trump Presidency, Attorneys Say January 18, 2017, Washington, D.C. – Today, in the last case heard during the Obama administration,...
Fifteen years ago, after the Sept. 11 attacks, I was swept up with lots of other Muslim, Arab and South Asian men, held in immigration detention for months in isolation, beaten and harassed. I later...
Background : From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights has been on...
Background: From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights has been on...