March 14, 2022Finally! Mentally ill torture survivor imprisoned at Guantánamo since 2002 is sent home Last week, Mohammed al-Qahtani , held at Guantánamo since 2002, arrived in Saudi Arabia, where he will receive...
July 2008The lawsuit filed by Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was sent by the US to Syria and client of the Center for Constitutional Rights, was dismissed, despite his claims that he was deliberately...
Click here to download the White Paper. The Center for Constitutional Rights has long been active in the movement to address racial profiling, particularly in New York City. CCR has been combating...
Updated: November 10, 2011
May 18, 2018...I know that Amnesty International and the Center for Constitutional Rights also have extensive dossiers against high-level US officials involved in these torture programs, including Haspel. She...
October 8, 2021...Working with the US-based Center for Constitutional Rights, Gallagher represents three men detained in Guantanamo, and warns that "allowing powerful states to get away w[ith] multi-year, multi-...
Stop-and-frisk attorneys respond to new Monitor’s report on Community Response Teams June 3, 2025, New York – The court-appointed monitor in the landmark stop-and-frisk case against the NYPD, Floyd v...
May 21, 2009, New York – Center for Constitutional Rights President Michael Ratner and Managing Attorney for CCR’s Guantanamo project Shayana Kadidal responded with disappointment to President Obama’...
September 4, 2020...The probe has been welcomed by human rights activists and advocacy groups such as the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which denounced the sanctions as "an unprecedented...
CIA director nominee Gina Haspel was grilled on the morality of torture by Sen. Kamala Harris, even as many question if the use of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ could recur during the Trump...
Updated: May 18, 2018
7pm Reception to follow in the Hotung lobby. Sponsored by Witness Against Torture's 100 Days Campaign. Co-sponsored by Georgetown Law School’s Amnesty International Chapter.
Updated: March 6, 2009
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