April 5, 2018Muslim leaders and their lawyers say a settlement of legal claims that the New York City Police Department illegally spied on Muslims empowers them to prevent future abuse. The deal was announced...
February 8, 2013, New York - In response to John Brennan's admission to the CIA and NYPD's arrangement to spy on American Muslims, Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
December 18, 2015As a Japanese lawyer studying in the United States, I came across CCR’s case Hassan v. City of New York , a lawsuit challenging the blanket surveillance and religious profiling of Muslim communities...
Sharqawi Al Hajj is a 47-year-old citizen of Yemen who has been detained without charge at Guantánamo since 2004, after over two years in CIA sites. He faces the prospect of a death sentence in...
Updated: November 15, 2024
October 13, 2015A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim groups in New Jersey after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying any...
The Center for Constitutional Rights along with Council on American-Islamic Relations-NYC and Desis Rising Up and Moving co-sponsor a Haymarket Book launch event featuring Deepa Kumar and special...
Updated: August 22, 2012
January 7, 2016Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights, two organizations headquartered in New York City, said they hoped the settlement would prompt de Blasio to speak out against profiling. "...
On February 2, 2021, 111 organizations joined a letter led by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Center for Victims of Torture to President Biden urging him to close the prison at...
Updated: September 8, 2021
On June 21 at 11 AM, Yemeni-American community members, along with local community and human rights organizations, will launch a new report, Window Dressing the Muslim Ban: Reports of waivers...
Updated: June 18, 2018
Join the Debevoise Muslim Affinity Group, CUNY CLEAR, the Muslim Bar Association of New York, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, and the Center for the Constitutional Rights...
Updated: October 9, 2020
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