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...
January 2015The United States has acknowledged that the conviction of an Australian man held for nearly six years in Guantanamo Bay was not legally valid. The Australian, David Hicks, was one of the first people...
CCR has proudly stood up for LGBTQI people and communities for decades, and we’re very excited that this year for the first time we will be marching as an official contingent in the annual NYC Pride...
Updated: June 26, 2015
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on October 7th. We will discuss our new report with Palestine Legal on the suppression of Palestine activism in the U.S. We are excited for a special appearance by CCR...
Updated: October 1, 2015
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on November 4th. We will discuss how our clients, held in solitary for decades, reached a landmark settlement in Ashker v. Governor of California that will end...
Updated: November 5, 2015
August 18, 2015, Guantánamo – Today, an attorney from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a Periodic Review Board (PRB) at Guantánamo to recommend that Mohammed Kamin be cleared for...
August 18, 2015Chelsea Manning, the U.S. soldier imprisoned over feeding classified documents to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, faced a disciplinary hearing Tuesday over contraband found in her cell. If the...
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