September 27, 2016In the days after the 9/11 attacks, Congress was asked to give President Bush the authority to use the military “to deter and preempt any future acts of terrorism or aggression against the United...
October 5, 2016In the last two weeks, some Americans have heard more about a controversial New York City Police Department tactic — “stop and frisk” — than possibly ever before. A whole host of conservative...
June 12, 2017On June 7, artist Ai WeiWei and architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron turned New York City’s Park Avenue Armory into a surveillance park inspired by Hansel and Gretel. The park uses the...
July 28, 2017I'm not the first person to investigate the place of games at Gitmo. Which was surprising to me, because in some ways, especially in the beginning, my investigation into the Detainee Library and its...
September 14, 2017, New York – In response to reports that a United States citizen fighting for the Islamic State in Syria has been taken into U.S. custody, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Following the October 19 performance of The Siege , CCR Deputy Legal Director Maria LaHood will participate in a conversation, “ Staging Conflict, Making Peace ” with Cynthia Schneider (Georgetown),...
Updated: October 13, 2017
Following the October 21 performance of The Siege , CCR Staff Attorney Diala Shamas will participate in a conversation, “ Practice Resistance ” with Sarah Schulman (CUNY), David Zellnik (Break the...
Updated: October 13, 2017
October 23, 2017A prisoner prohibited from speaking to his family for four months after uttering the words “As-Salaam-Alaikum.” Books that have to be destroyed after one prisoner reads them, lest he somehow use the...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International USA, Justice for Muslims Collective, and Witness Against Torture for a discussion of Trump’s Guantánamo. Doors open at 6:00pm and the...
Updated: July 2, 2018
September 24, 2018, New York – In response to the Trump administration’s proposal to designate hundreds of thousands of immigrants as potential “public charges,” the Center for Constitutional Rights...
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