Diala Shamas is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security...
February 22, 2019, New York – In reaction to the Trump administration’s determination that Hoda Muthana, a 24-year-old U.S.-born woman of Yemeni origin, who is currently detained in Syria with her 18...
Where is the world to save us from torture? Where is the world to save us from the fire and sadness? – Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif Twenty years after the opening of Guantánamo , Adnan's questions remain...
Updated: February 2, 2022
In appeal of “Irvine 11” convictions, CCR, JVP submit Amicus Brief highlighting prospect of discriminatory prosecution against Muslim students who spoke out for Palestinian human rights...
Updated: October 10, 2013
January 28, 2013, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), in collaboration with the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), the Student Speech Working Group and other organizations, today...
Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Office of Global Learning will present a conference on "The War on Terror and the Fate of Human Rights in the U.S." at the Metropolitan Campus, Teaneck, NJ...
Updated: April 21, 2008
November 2012CCR Executive Director Vince Warren discusses Guantanamo, military tribunals, and the rule of law in the New York Times. Guantánamo was an international symbol of lawlessness and abuse in 2008 when...
This online panel discussion is part of “ The Normalizing Gaze: Surveillance from Drones to Phones ,” a biweekly online speaker series from July–October 2021. In conjunction with...
Updated: September 28, 2021
March 1, 2017A federal appeals court in Manhattan heard arguments Wednesday in a case brought by three Muslim men who claim the FBI violated their constitutional rights by placing them on the government's no-fly...
June 27, 2018...Most importantly, the ban continues the Trump administration’s vicious assault on multiple forms of immigration. A recent report by the Center for Constitutional Rights has documented how the...
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