Black August 2021: Fighting for Freedom from the Inside Black August honors the freedom fighters, especially those inside the walls of our sprawling prison-industrial complex, who, with their vision...
Updated: August 26, 2021
On September 1, 2019, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Lambda Legal, the Transgender Law Center, and a total of 50 legal experts and advocacy organizations filed a submission with the United...
Updated: September 26, 2019
CCR joined 10 other civil rights groups in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Education (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kenneth L. Marcus demanding he end his department's attacks on...
Updated: December 4, 2018
January 2009With the signing of yesterday's executive orders to close Guantanamo and end torture, we are finally seeing the beginning of a reversal of some of the nastiest inhuman practices of the Bush...
May 2009A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some written by the prisoners themselves, could be destroyed under a little-known provision of a federal court order the Bush...
January 2012Guantanamo remains a part of America’s conscience ten years later. Despite Obama’s promises, some 171 inmates remain at Guantanamo bay after 600 were released. Only six detainees were...
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Updated: March 10, 2008
June 17, 2015I’ve written at some length in the past about judicial hostility to damages suits brought by victims of allegedly unlawful post-9/11 counterterrorism policies. I may have to rethink some of that...
June 27, 2018...Ibraham Qatabi, a legal worker at The Center for Constitutional Rights, told NPR that Mozeb’s situation is not uncommon. “Some had already been told their visas were approved only to later be...
February 27, 2019... Some of the inmates who filed the lawsuit, with assistance from the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, say they suffered abuse mirroring some of the most well-documented incidents...
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