October 7, 2015, New York – Today, the government officially informed Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed Kamin that the Periodic Review Board (PRB) has cleared him for release. Mr. Kamin, who is from...
Answer: When the child is Black and the shooter is a police officer. Welcome to America, where #BlackLivesMatter is a trending hashtag, but police impunity is a lethal reality of Black life. There’s...
Medical Experts: Ba Odah “On the Precipice of Death” October 15, 2015, Washington, D.C. – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a court to release a 74-pound...
In an effort to quell public uproar after the release of a video showing the murder of Laquan McDonald, a Black teenager who was shot 16 times by a police officer in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel...
On February 2, 2012, after NYPD officers unlawfully entered into his home without a warrant, probable cause, or any other legal justification, NYPD officer Richard Haste shot and killed 18-year-old...
It has been a little over a year since a federal court began monitoring the reforms ordered in our stop-and-frisk case, and in that time the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel* have been...
Many members of Congress continue to battle the structures funding our immigration detention system. Last week, a group of 56 members of the House of Representatives renewed the call for an end to...
It was the year of the Apollo 14 moon landing. On March 1, the Weather Underground took credit for a bombing at the U.S. Capitol. Later in the year, the U.S. Supreme Court would rule unanimously that...
Attorneys Provide Records to Review Board, Urge al Qahtani’s Release to Care June 15, 2016 – Tomorrow morning Guantánamo detainee Mohammed al Qahtani will have a hearing before a Periodic Review...
June 21, 2016, New York – Today, human rights and civil liberties groups filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request seeking documents relating to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s recent executive order...
