January 2012Will Potter, an independent journalist who specializes in the topic of eco-terrorism, says the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act classification of activists as terrorists threatens to end activism, in...
September 9, 2014, Urbana-Champaign, IL – Prof. Steven Salaita spoke today for the first time about his termination from a tenured faculty position at the University of Illinois at Urbana...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and our partners for a multi-part livestream on January 26 to amplify the hearing in our federal lawsuit, Defense for Children International - Palestine (...
Updated: January 26, 2024
June 7, 2023...The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights condemned in a statement CUNY Chancellor’s and Board of Trustees’ criticism of the graduation speech by Mohammed, chosen by her fellow students...
January 14, 2016... Ghazi was captured when he was 17 years old. He was accused of being an Islamic extremist who traveled to Afghanistan to take part in violent jihad, trained for less than two weeks at an al Qaeda...
April 2, 2021...A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that targeted a Palestinian rights organization for alleged terror connections. In 2019 the Jewish National Fund (JNF), and 12 American citizens living in...
May 14, 2021...Prison officials violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment if they are deliberately indifferent to conditions of confinement that pose a substantial risk of...
On September 14, 2007, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) co-counsel argued the appeal of the first case filed by Guantanamo detainees seeking to hold U.S. officials accountable for the physical...
September 1, 2015Spurred by hunger strikes and protests over inmates being restricted to solitary confinement for a decade or longer, California on Tuesday agreed to soften its approach to keeping inmates isolated in...
Greenpeace has joined CCR in calling for the UN General Assembly to prevent a possible war in Iraq by using UN resolution 377, "Uniting for Peace", a little known resolution that can be...
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