August 20, 2014, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel Joseph Margulies filed a motion asking the Court of Military Commission Review to vacate...
Shayana Kadidal is a Senior Managing Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he has worked on several significant cases arising in the wake of 9/11, including CCR's challenges to the...
9:30am Belhas v. Ya’alon is a class action lawsuit filed against retired Israeli Lieutenant General Moshe Ya’alon that charges him with war crimes and extra-judicial killing for his role in the...
Updated: December 6, 2007
Join us on Monday, November 8, 2010 as the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel from the ACLU present oral arguments before the district court in Washington, D.C. against the President's...
Updated: November 5, 2010
Join CCR President Michael Ratner for a special event sponsored by the Lannan Foundation as part of their lecture series on political, economic, environmental and human rights issues. Michael will...
Updated: May 11, 2011
CCR staff will make various presentations at the National Lawyers Guild Convention in Puerto Rico. Lauren Gazzola will speak at a "Defending Terrorism" workshop that will convene lawyers,...
Updated: October 23, 2013
Last year, prisoners conducted a sixty day hunger strike to protest the inhumane conditions and brutal long-term confinement within California’s Secure Housing Units (SHUs). Their courage and...
Updated: February 10, 2014
Apparently, former president, George W. Bush does “cut and run.” On February 7, 2011, two torture victims were to have filed criminal complaints for torture against former president...
Updated: February 8, 2011
On September 12, 2014, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and other experts submitted testimony to a UK Parliamentary Committee calling for evidence about the UK-US extradition treaty. The...
Updated: September 12, 2014
June 2013by Nahal Zamani, Center for Constitutional Rights Advocacy Manager "This week presents a pivotal moment for the New York City Council to do their share in the citywide movement to end the...
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