February 7, 2017...A complaint filed with the inspector general for Homeland Security details what two legal advocacy groups call “systemic abuses and violations of the rights of individuals lawfully entering the...
June 30, 2017This week on CounterSpin : After 9/11, hundreds of non-citizen Muslim, Arab and South Asian men should be locked up and treated as suspected terrorists, despite no evidence of terrorist connections...
February 14, 2019Claiming lasting damage from prison isolation units, two Muslim former federal inmates urged a federal judge Thursday to strike down the policy used against them as unconstitutional. Yassin Muhiddin...
February 9, 2021...“An expansion of domestic terrorism won’t mean more focus on white terrorism,” said Diala Shamas, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights. “When you consider the biases that law...
September 11, 2021...A particular organization was on the front lines early on. Just weeks after 9/11, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was helping clients dealing with outright human rights abuses and...
Experts will connect the dots between the police killing of unarmed African Americans in the U.S. and the brutal treatment of Muslim men imprisoned at Guantanamo. The panelists include Kathy Kelly (...
Updated: February 9, 2015
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei will join a roundtable discussion at a day-long Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program titled, "Exploring the New Administration's 'to-do' list." Pardiss...
Updated: January 27, 2017
January 31, 2018...Practically speaking, Trump's order won't do much, Obama's Guantanamo envoy, Lee Wolosky, tells The Associated Press . "But as a symbolic matter, it changes a great deal because the two presidents...
Join the National Lawyers Guild Wednesday, December 6, 6 - 7:30 p.m. for a panel exploring the current conflict, including international and humanitarian law issues, the recent lawsuit filed in...
Updated: December 6, 2023
February 10, 2020Muslims put on No-Fly List by FBI agents as coercion tactic are asking SCOTUS to allow lawsuit to go forward [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Wednesday, Muslim men who were placed or kept on the...
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