November 5, 2021...The abuses, which spanned three years after Khan was detained in Karachi in 2003, included being waterboarded, hung naked from a ceiling beam, starved, and being physically and sexually assaulted...
The Center for Constitutional Rights Presents: Beautiful Uprisings: A round table conversation about the global Power of protest. [flyer] From Palestine to New York, we have born witness the power of...
Updated: March 20, 2023
February 21, 2020... It was Chinyere Ezie, a civil rights lawyer who first posted pictures of the blackface figurines from what Prada called its “Pradamalia'' line. After a massive social media upheaval, they pulled...
May 4, 2023...The groups claimed the discriminatory approvals violate constitutional rights enacted to end slavery and discrimination, and said the approvals "have intentionally caused a conscience-shocking...
October 2014"Responding to a lawsuit alleging unlawful and unconstitutional police surveillance of Muslim communities, lawyers under New York Mayor Bill de Blasio have doubled down on the arguments of his...
Attend a discussion celebrating the publication of Less Safe, Less Free: Why America is Losing the War on Terror by Professor David Cole, CCR Board member and Jules Lobel, CCR Vice President. 3:45 PM...
Updated: October 18, 2007
Barack Obama, the former US president, famously promised to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, issuing an executive order in January 2009 to shut it down. But nearly a decade later the prison...
Updated: August 14, 2018
February 2009The Obama administration backed the Bush administration's arguments in a lawsuit involving the practice of seizing terror suspects abroad and sending them to third countries for questioning. The case...
December 2008The Supreme Court today revived a lawsuit by four British Muslims who say they were tortured and abused at the Guantanamo Bay prison and seek to hold top Pentagon officials responsible. The suit was...
February 2012Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses how the Alien Tort Statute often provides the only way for a victim of human rights abuses committed abroad to see...
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