April 23, 2010, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International USA, and the Council on American Islamic Relations-NY released an open letter today expressing their...
November 25, 2015This piece was originally published by the Electronic Intifada . When the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign dismissed my client , Professor Steven Salaita , from a tenured faculty position...
March 30, 2016Out of the nearly 800 people who have been imprisoned at Guantánamo over the last fourteen years, only 8 have been convicted of a crime—that’s just 1%. Yet, Republicans, eager to keep the prison open...
May 4, 2016Yesterday, CCR joined a coalition of over 100 groups to send a letter to members of the New York Legislature, urging lawmakers to oppose bills that would effectively create blacklists of individuals...
February 7, 2017“Five soldiers were taking turns to rape a 25 year old woman after they butchered her husband with a knife, when her eight month old son started crying because he was hungry and wanted to be breast...
August 10, 2017Two weeks ago, on the 102nd anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, I attended the Black Alliance for Just Immigration’s (BAJI) Black-centered delegation to the U.S. Southern border in San Diego,...
February 5, 2018CCR supports the call to Divest from the War Machine CCR is joining a coalition of groups in a Week of Action beginning today in support of the Divest from the War Machine campaign . The campaign...
September 21, 2020FILED: New FOIA requests info on Thomson Reuters, RELX Group contracts with ICE Last week, Mijente, the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), CUNY Law School’s Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic (HRGJ...
January 12, 2017As President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...
The Invasion of Iraq & Torture and Abuse at Abu Ghraib In March 2003, the United States unlawfully invaded Iraq using a false claim that Iraq had developed “weapons of mass destruction” to...
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