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...
Updated: September 3, 2025
April 2014Former US Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. was reportedly punished with solitary confinement for giving legal advice to his fellow inmates, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. An anonymous source...
Purna Raj Bajracharya currently lives in Katmandu, Nepal with his wife, sons, and daughters-in-law. Purna is a plaintiff in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a lawsuit filed in 2002 on...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Come work with other fierce social justice warriors! From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention at Guantánamo, the Center for...
Updated: October 18, 2016
January 20, 2011, New York – Just before the first anniversary of President Obama’s failed deadline to close Guantanamo, the New York Times yesterday reported that the administration will...
September 12, 2011, New York - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights responded to the United States Court of Military Commission Review (CMRC) decision in Al-Bahlul v. United States , which was...
April 2, 2014, Chicago – Yesterday afternoon, the Senate Judiciary Committee of the Illinois Senate rejected Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 59, proposed by Senator Ira Silverstein (D-Chicago),...
Alwan for the Arts Presents Accountability for Torture and Rendition in the War on Terror- A Book Reading and Discussion with Professor David Cole, Introduced and Moderated by Issa Mikel Wednesday,...
Updated: November 24, 2008
The Center for Constitutional Rights seeks a third- or fourth-year undergraduate student, recent graduate, or graduate student with a strong commitment to social justice to help with several legal...
Updated: July 13, 2022
September 17, 2015When the detention facility at the U.S. Naval base in Guantánamo Bay opened in early 2002, I was a junior in high school. This week, nearly 14 years later, I’m making my first visit to the base as an...
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