September 27, 2016... “It really drove a wedge between police and communities,” said Darius Charney, a senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights . The organization filed a lawsuit against the NYPD for...
November 12, 2015, Chicago – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel Loevy & Loevy announced the settlement of Professor Steven Salaita’s case against the University of...
Updated in 2020! The Center for Constitutional Rights created If An Agent Knocks to provide advice to activists likely to be targeted by FBI agents or other federal investigators. Since its original...
Updated: October 28, 2020
Incidents Will Not Stop Until Hate Stops October 29, 2018, New York – Today, in response to last week’s shootings at a Kroger in Jeffersontown, KY, and Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh, PA,...
May 2010Amy Goodman, host of the syndicated "Democracy Now!" news program, and two of her producers filed suit against the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis and other defendants Wednesday over...
Guantanamo habeas petition in D.C. District Court, and human rights petition and request for precautionary measures before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (“IACHR”) for Djamel Ameziane
Updated: May 27, 2020
February 16, 2016A court-appointed monitor has called into question the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk data, finding that some officers still don't understand the rules governing the practice and that...
July 9, 2015The New York Police Department may not be accurately reporting the number of stop-and-frisk encounters, casting doubt on the extent of the decline in the crime-fighting tactic, according to a federal...
Abu Zubaydah is a victim of some of the most egregious torture perpetrated against detainees in the post-9/11 era. Held in CIA prisons located in various third countries from 2002 to 2006, he was the...
Updated: August 23, 2021
May 2010According to the Times, police spokesman Paul Browne believes "the police were confident the tactic was stopping crime before it occurred." Newly analyzed data by The Center for...
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