November 26, 2015Hours after President Barack Obama signed into law a defense bill that continues to thwart closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, a group of human rights activists is staging a vigil and...
August 12, 2022... He’s not only a phenomenal healing — in terms of healing modality, in terms of treating addiction with acupuncture. He’s also, like I said, a human rights activist. There are organizations such...
On this bonus episode of The Activist Files , CCR Communications Director Chandra Hayslett talks to Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei about Pardiss’s visit to the National Memorial for Peace and...
Updated: March 7, 2023
New York, August 25, 2011 – Today federal district court Judge Nicholas Garaufis heard closing arguments in V ulcan Society, Inc. v. City of New York , ending a trial that began August 1st to...
Attend NY Senate Public Forum to Express your Support for Anti-Torture Legislation NY Senator Thomas K. Duane, co-sponsor of the Gottfried/Duane NY Anti-Torture Legislation explicitly prohibiting New...
Updated: November 11, 2011
January 21, 2021... Terrorism is a nebulous legal concept , and related statutes have historically been used to target Black and brown communities and environmental activists — rarely ever used to prosecute far-...
January 21, 2009, New York – Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys for Guantánamo detainees responded today to portions of President Obama’s draft executive order to close the offshore prison...
May 2011Activists prosecuted under Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) have in several cases ended up in the "Communications Management Units" at two federal prisons. Created secretly during the...
Join CCR on February 3rd from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 pm to remember and honor David Kato at a candlelight vigil organized by the International Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Commission . The vigil will take...
Updated: February 2, 2011
April 18, 2019...The judges concluded that the lack of cooperation in any investigation by the U.S. and others meant that there was a low prospect of obtaining any convictions and it was not in the interests of...
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