June 14, 2015The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has formally censured the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) over its firing last summer of Steven Salaita for criticizing...
June 17, 2015A federal appeals court reinstated complaints in a lawsuit against former Justice Department officials, who allegedly violated the rights of Arab or Muslim immigrants in the immediate months after...
September 1, 2015California will release hundreds of inmates confined for years in solitary confinement into units where they will live with others, in a sweeping settlement announced Tuesday to reform the practice...
September 11, 2015The government is skirting the Geneva Conventions and other international human rights standards by refusing to immediately release Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni Guantánamo detainee suffering from severe...
April 11, 2016State and European prison officials, academics, scientists, attorneys, released former inmates and others will gather in Pittsburgh this week to discuss prolonged solitary confinement in prison — as...
Please save the date and pack the court for oral argument on motions for summary judgment in SMUG v. Lively , a federal lawsuit in which CCR represents Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG). SMUG is a non-...
Updated: September 13, 2016
CCR Bertha Justice Institute Fellow Noor Zafar will join a panel to discuss the travel ban executive order and its impact on the Iranian community and other affected communities, and pending...
Updated: February 28, 2017
June 30, 2017For Abdul Latif Nasser, a Moroccan national held in the US military-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the difference between freedom and continued incarceration was just eight days...
December 22, 2017The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office in Northern Virginia is holding people in jail past their release date at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] using a technique that raises...
March 5, 2021...Pam Spees, the Center for Constitutional Rights attorney who represented the survivors, told me that the work Bishop Accountability does is the “most important and well-respected, credible...
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