July 1, 2014, New York – In response to a ruling yesterday by a Chilean court confirming the role of U.S. intelligence services in the 1973 murders of two American citizens, Charles Horman and...
October 23, 2017A prisoner prohibited from speaking to his family for four months after uttering the words “As-Salaam-Alaikum.” Books that have to be destroyed after one prisoner reads them, lest he somehow use the...
January 2013Is there anything extremist right-wing preachers won’t blame on LGBT people? After the Newtown shooting, James Dobson listed tolerance of gay marriage as one of the reasons God’s...
December 7, 2017Dred Scott lives! With the Supreme Court’s declaration that President Trump’s third version of a Muslim travel ban is now enforceable, even as legal challenges against it proceed, the court and the...
CCR is proud to be a presenting partner of Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America. On Juneteenth, CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will provide a welcome address for Jeffery Robinson’s...
Updated: May 30, 2018
December 11, 2020...Diamond was returned to prison in October 2019 because of a parole violation, and she has found that conditions have not changed, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is...
We should all be concerned about human rights and about the negative effects of the Bush administration has had in that area—the torture, the unwarranted wiretapping, the disregard for the...
Updated: April 8, 2008
In July and August 2013, tens of thousands of Egyptians participated in large demonstrations to denounce the military's July 3 ouster of Mohamed Morsy, the country's first elected civilian president...
Updated: October 17, 2014
The Darkest Corner , authored by the Allard K. Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School in collaboration with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), documents a secretive form of...
Updated: August 31, 2021
October 22, 2015, New York – In response to President Obama’s veto today of the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents many of...
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