December 18, 2019...The “Erase the Database” campaign, to be launched Thursday, marks the latest in a yearslong effort to end collection of names and monitoring of the estimated 17,500 to 42,000 New Yorkers believed...
March 20, 2020... "The significance of this discovery for descendants, and for history, cannot be overstated," said Pam Spees, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights who's representing...
December 9, 2020...It’s often said that police agencies will function properly if they remove a few “bad apples,” said Patel, who served as trial counsel in 2012 for the Center for Constitutional Rights’ class-...
May 20, 2022...For Diala Shamas, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, the revelations are echoes of a covert FBI program from the 1950s to early ’70s, known as Cointelpro, that illegally...
May 19, 2023…After a sustained legal campaign driven by the Center for Constitutional Rights, in 2012 Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled the department’s widespread stop and frisk practice to be...
May 19, 2023…Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Attorney Diala Shamas: “This lawsuit was about punishing the US Campaign – and Palestinians – for daring to advocate for Palestinian rights and for supporting...
July 6, 2023...Wells Dixon, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and council to several Gitmo detainees, similarly declared that "the Biden administration needs to get out of its own way...
July 6, 2023...“I was a victim of US torture by the CIA. I survived and have forgiven my torturers, and I am moving on with my life in Belize. But I still wait for an apology, medical care, and other...
On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, the New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a briefing meeting. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney provided oral testimony during the...
Updated: March 28, 2017
Doe v. Lumintang is a civil lawsuit brought against the former Vice Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Army, Johny Lumintang. The suit implicates Lumintang in an official policy of repression of the...
Updated: September 25, 2012
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