By Katherine Gallagher, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights One thing brings these four men together. Hassan bin Attash, Sami el-Hajj, Muhammed Khan Tumani and Murat Kurnaz...
Updated: February 22, 2013
June 14, 2013, New York and Paris – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) released summary findings about the United States...
April 18, 2022The first case of its kind in the country, it seeks an end to the ban on parole for felony murder
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
July 6, 2023...Meanwhile in the United States, just last month, President Joe Biden, who repeatedly criticized the Trump administration’s cruel and needless immigration policies, decided to outright adopt some...
March 21, 2024A few months ago, I gathered with colleagues and allies to mark the 10th anniversary of the landmark stop-and-frisk ruling , which held New York City liable for a pattern of unconstitutional stops...
January 7, 2011, Madrid, Spain – Today, the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) asked a Spanish Judge to...
August 7, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) responded today to a letter made public from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture to the American Psychological...
September 5, 2017, New York – In response to the Trump administration ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following...
September 13, 2021A federal judge declared unlawful the U.S. government’s turnbacks of asylum seekers arriving at ports of entry along the U.S. southern border.
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