October 17, 2015That is the cruel and absurd world of Guantánamo, where Tariq Ba Odah , long cleared for release by every U.S. security agency, still languishes in a cell 13 years on, waiting for the State...
Urgent Intervention Needed to Protect Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Prisons from COVID-19 Exposure April 14, 2020 For the attention of: The International Committee of the Red Cross...
Updated: April 16, 2020
August 6, 2021...In a motion filed in federal court Thursday, the plaintiffs in the original suit, Floyd et al. v. The City of New York, warn that the court-appointed monitor is undermining the credibility of the...
Rights groups offer toolkit for communities January 25, 2017, New York – In response to Donald Trump’s executive order targeting immigrants, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney will speak on a panel at the Criminal Justice in the 21st Century conference for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Brennan Center for...
Updated: December 3, 2013
On Tuesday, May 11, 2021, at 9:30 a.m. ET, join the Center for Constitutional Rights for appellate argument in the D.C. Court of Appeals in the case Bronner v. Duggan . This case was filed...
Updated: May 7, 2021
January 31, 2012, New York, NY – In response to the Obama administration’s decision to admit interim Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to the U.S. on Saturday night, purportedly to...
A case brought by four former Guantanamo prisoners against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld seeking damages for their arbitrary detention and torture.
Updated: July 11, 2011
Plaintiffs charged Nikola Vuckovic with war crimes; crimes against humanity; and torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA) and the Alien Tort...
Updated: September 27, 2012
In this series of related cases, CCR has tackled two sets of legal prohibitions that make it a crime to provide support, including humanitarian aid, literature distribution and political advocacy, to...
Updated: September 8, 2021
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