The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to co-sponsor monthly vigils calling for the closure of Guantánamo. These vigils will take place in several cities in the U.S. and abroad on the...
Updated: August 29, 2023
January 11, 2024...S harqawi Al Hajj is a man detained at the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay , Cuba. I have been his lawyer for many years. This week marks 22 years since the prison was opened, and Sharqawi’s...
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Updated: March 10, 2008
April 2010Civil rights and immigrant-advocacy groups teamed up Tuesday to condemn the recently passed Arizona immigration legislation as racist, as they filed a lawsuit seeking more information about a...
A California woman's lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that has grown into the biggest sex discrimination case in history is poised to go before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, and the outcome...
June 2012Imagine spending a month alone in a windowless cell the size of a small bathroom. Now multiply that by 100, and you can begin to understand the average period of solitary confinement endured by...
As part of the William H. Gates Public Service Law Program at the University of Washington School of Law, Vincent Warren , Executive Director of CCR, will be speaking to the campus community. The...
Updated: September 23, 2008
June 13, 2015A leading academic group voted Saturday to censure the University of Illinois’ flagship campus over its decision not to hire a professor following his anti-Israel Twitter messages, a vote the...
August 14, 2015The Obama administration has decided for now to fight any court-ordered release of a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who has been on a hunger strike since February 2007 and now weighs less than 75...
November 13, 2015The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has reached a settlement of $875,000 for firing a professor over his anti-Israel tweets. UIUC fired Steven Salaita for tweets criticizing “the...
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