CCR Senior Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher will speak at a symposium at Michigan State University College of Law on the responses of the legal system to U.S. torture. The event will feature...
Updated: February 26, 2016
Case against CACI Premier Technology, Inc., may be reheard following mistrial May 2, 2024, Alexandria, VA – Today, after eight days of deliberations following a six-day trial, the jury failed to...
New York, December 17, 2011— This morning, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), representing Julian Assange, publisher of the WikiLeaks media organization, appealed a military court...
June 23, 2015It is well-known that the United States incarcerates more people than any other country. While the US makes up only 5% of the global population, it holds a quarter of the world's prisoners. The US’s...
A challenge to corporate impunity of private military contractors under the Alien Tort Statute for war crimes and torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
Updated: September 25, 2025
July 8, 2013, New York – Today, in response to the resumption of a hunger strike by prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison in California, the Center for...
First of its kind to make it to trial, lawsuit delivers rare accountability for U.S post-9/11 torture November 12, 2024, Alexandria, VA – Today, in a landmark verdict, a jury in a federal court found...
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
On September 30, 2024, the Center for Constitutional Rights and The Promise of Justice Initiative sent a Special Communication Complaint to the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery;...
Updated: September 30, 2024
In his recently released memoir Decision Points, George W. Bush admitted that he enthusiastically authorized that certain detainees be waterboarded – or tortured, a crime under domestic and...
Updated: November 10, 2010
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