Introduction by Laura Magnani, American Friends Service Committee What follows below is an update from the leadership of the 2011 and 2013 California Prison Hunger Strikes against indefinite solitary...
Authoritative National Report Condemns Secure Communities Program Law Enforcement Experts and Victims of S-Comm Conclude Program Should Be Ended August 16, 2011, New York and Washington – Today...
March 18, 2014, Richmond, VA– A month before the 10-year anniversary of the Abu Ghraib torture photos, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel urged a federal...
June 1, 2010 - We, the undersigned organisations gathered in Kampala at the International Criminal Court (ICC) Review Conference, are shocked by Israel’s killing and injury of civilians...
Attorneys and statistical experts refuted a recent court-appointed monitor’s report on the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk practices, saying Wednesday that it misrepresented and...
"We learned a lot from that big Senate Intelligence Committee report on C.I.A. interrogation tactics after 9/11. It was what may be the first time in American history that the term “rectal hydration...
June 13, 2011, Washington and New York – Today, nearly five years to the day after three men died at Guantánamo in June 2006 under still-unexplained circumstances, the Center for...
Abu Ghraib’s Legacy of Torture In April 2004, shocking photographs depicting the humiliation and torture of prisoners in the early days of the Iraq war were made public. Images of men in hoods,...
June 14, 2010, New York – Today, the United States Supreme Court decided not to hear the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) case on behalf of Canadian citizen Maher Arar against U.S...
January 14, 2016, New York – Today, the Department of Defense announced the transfer of Guantánamo prisoner and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) client Fahd Ghazy to Oman. Mr. Ghazy was only 17...
