May 15, 2024...In April, I sat in on the closing arguments of Al Shimari v. CACI , a federal lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of three victims of torture at Abu Ghraib against...
Join us for First Wednesday on December 2nd, where we will highlight the victories of this year, discuss how CCR's wide-ranging work is connected, and take a moment to celebrate before...
Updated: December 7, 2015
Join Center for Constitutional Rights senior staff attorney, Chinyere Ezie , at the 2019 Lavender Law ® Conference & Career Fair as she the shifting nature of the...
Updated: July 29, 2019
CCR Deputy Legal Director Alexis Agathocleous will be presenting on the Media/Arts: Activism panel at Moving Media @ Brown , a two-day symposium celebrating, interrogating, and exploring the...
Updated: October 11, 2016
March 9, 2017...The legal advocacy organizations Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights issued a statement saying it would fight to prevent the bills from passing the Assembly and becoming law...
January 16, 2020...Migrant Justice is a Vermont-based human rights organization founded and led by immigrant farmworkers. The organization is a plaintiff in the lawsuit along with members Enrique Balcazar, Zully...
In the pre-dawn hours of May 31, 2010, a six-boat flotilla carrying more than 700 civilians from almost 40 countries was overtaken by Israeli commandos in international waters. Israeli commandos...
Updated: August 15, 2014
June 23, 2015At last count, there were an estimated 80,000 prisoners in isolation across the United States. ... There are more than 1,000 prisoners in isolation in Pelican Bay alone. For 25 years, until a 2011...
Trouble seeing the video? Watch on Democracy Now! University of Illinois trustees have voted to agree to a $875,000 financial settlement with Steven Salaita. Last year, his job offer for a tenured...
Updated: November 16, 2015
Zahir Hamdoun Zahir Hamdoun, a Yemeni citizen born in 1979 in Hadramout, Yemen, was held without charge in Guantanamo for over fourteen years. The fifth of eight children, Mr. Hamdoun grew up in a...
Updated: August 15, 2016
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