July 29, 2015Despite promises to close the detention center during Barack Obama’s presidential run, the prison at the Guantanamo Bay naval base remains open. And now it appears those detained at the controversial...
August 7, 2015A federal judge has just ruled against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which had sought to have Steven Salaita’s case against it tossed out. At the same time, the chancellor who had...
October 13, 2015A federal appeals court in Philadelphia Tuesday reinstated a civil rights lawsuit over the NYPD's surveillance of Muslims, ruling that claimed public safety and national security concerns did not...
November 12, 2015More than a year after firing Dr. Steven Salaita from a tenured faculty position for publishing personal tweets critical of Israel's 2014 military assault on Gaza, the University of Illinois at...
November 14, 2015As Steven Salaita recounts it in his just-published book, “ Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom ,” on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 2014, he was “enjoying a typical Saturday: the...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol and CCR Board member Jules Lobel will speak at a biannual conference at UCLA for advocates around prison issues in September. Rachel is taking part in the...
Updated: September 15, 2016
October 27, 2016Shortly after a recent gala celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Center for Constitutional rights (CCR), received word that the U.S. Supreme Court is going to take another look at a favorable...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will give the keynote address at the annual Western Regional National Black Law Students Association (WRNBLSA) Convention in Seattle on January 7. His keynote will...
Updated: January 6, 2017
June 2, 2017...Hawkins said the Defense Department's copy also is particularly important because it provides evidence that could be used in the military commission trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees. A military...
December 1, 2017Sixteen years after Sept. 11, 2001, and 17 years after two suicide bombers killed 17 sailors aboard the USS Cole , the death penalty trials of the Guantanamo detainees accused of planning the attacks...
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