January 27, 2023 – In response to the release of the video of Tyre Nichols’ murder by five Memphis police, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We join our community...
CCR, on behalf of Canadian citizen Maher Arar, sues Attorney General John Ashcroft and other U.S. officials for sending him to be tortured in Syria. On January 22, 2004, CCR filed a constitutional...
February 6, 2009, New York – Today, in the case of Khan Tumani v. Obama, attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel sought emergency relief for a young Syrian detained at...
On Friday, April 5, 2019, Center for Constitutional Rights staff attorney, Omar Farah , will join the annual Rutgers Race and the Law Review Symposium for this year's Symposium is entitled:...
Updated: March 27, 2019
*** Know Your Rights in the NYC Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelter system *** Are you a transgender, non-binary, intersex, or gender non-conforming (TGNC) person who has faced...
Updated: March 20, 2023
Fact sheet on Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a case filed in April 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up in connection with the 9/11...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Purna Raj Bajracharya currently lives in Katmandu, Nepal with his wife, sons, and daughters-in-law. Purna is a plaintiff in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a lawsuit filed in 2002 on...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Forum & Screening Featuring the D.C. Premiere of the Documentary Film: ISN 310: Djamel Ameziane's Decade in Guantánamo * Free & Open to the Public, Wine & Cheese Reception to...
Updated: April 8, 2013
maya finoh (they/them) is the Political Education and Research Manager for the Center for Constitutional Rights. As part of the Advocacy team's growing Political Education and Research hub, maya...
September 2014Iraq veterans joined by human rights lawyers filed a Freedom of Information Act request on Thursday with the U.S. Department of Defense and the State Department over its use of depleted uranium...
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