July 2011When an upstate imam named Yassin Aref was convicted on a suspect terrorism charge, he was sent to a secretive prison denounced by civil libertarians as a Muslim quarantine.
December 2014"In the wake of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s landmark report on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, civil rights organizations are calling for those responsible to face immediate legal...
January 2015Djamel Ameziane was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 to 2013. Like the rest of the detainees there, he was never charged with a crime or given a trial, and according to the Center for...
January 2015" Steven Salaita, an academic whose contract for tenured professorship was abruptly terminated by the University of Illinois board of trustees last September for tweets critical of Israel, has filed...
February 1, 2016... “…We believe this goes all the way up to Bill Bratton as Police Commissioner,” said Nahal Damani, advocacy program manager for the Center for Constitutional rights. “It’s under his watch, it’s...
Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) is non-profit umbrella organization for LGBTI advocacy groups in Uganda. SMUG was founded in 2004 and the network currently comprises 18 organizations in Uganda...
Updated: February 29, 2016
On Wednesday, the trailblazing attorney Michael Ratner died at the age of 72. In recent years, Ratner served as the chief attorney for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and became a leading critic of...
Updated: May 12, 2016
November 22, 2016...In a letter delivered to the Obama administration on Monday, the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, or ADC, blasted NSEERS for being "ineffective as a counterterrorism tool" and causing...
January 17, 2017It was September 2001, two weeks after 19 Muslim hijackers carried out the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history. Federal authorities never found any connection between Abbasi, a 28-year-old yellow...
February 7, 2018Oil has been flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline for months now, and lawsuits surrounding protests there in 2016 are winding their way through the court system. Wednesday, the Center for...
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