Photo of plaintiff Naveed Shinwari taken by Lend Frison Naveed Shinwari is a lawful permanent resident who has lived in the United States since 1998, when he was just 14 years old. He currently lives...
Updated: September 8, 2021
The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, the Center for...
Updated: November 16, 2021
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Color of Change (COC), and the Kramer Law Clinic are currently litigating under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to uncover how the FBI and Department...
Updated: April 19, 2019
On February 2, 2023, Majid Khan was transferred to Belize. He is the first of the prisoners transferred from secret CIA detention to Guantánamo in September 2006 to be released, and the first third-...
Updated: February 4, 2023
As we marked the 22nd anniversary of the prison's opening in January 2024, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined nearly 100 other U.S.-based and international NGOs in a letter to President...
Updated: January 11, 2024
Following in the footsteps of his grandfather and father, Ahmed Mohammed came to the United States from Yemen when he was just 19 years old. He graduated from Vaughn College with an Associate’s...
Updated: April 10, 2019
Mohammed Alobahy came to the United States at the age of 16. He has since received citizenship, graduated from college, and now works as a structural engineer. “I came to this country full of hopes...
Updated: April 10, 2019
CCR is proud to endorse the National Day of Action in Washington, DC, during oral argument in Hawaii v. Trump. The Supreme Court will examine Trump's latest Muslim Ban—Muslim Ban 3.0—which bans...
Updated: April 16, 2018
In 2010 and again in 2014, the Center for Constitutional Rights and a large coalition of organizations and concerned individuals came together to flood the Bureau of Prisons with public feedback...
Updated: August 27, 2015
Ahmer Iqbal Abbasi currently lives in Pakistan with his wife and four children and works as a supervisor at a construction company. Ahmer is a plaintiff in Ziglar v. Abbasi, a lawsuit filed in 2002...
Updated: September 8, 2021
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