September 1, 2015After decades of holding thousands of inmates in concrete, sometimes windowless isolation cells, where some stayed for 20 years or more, California prison officials are about to drastically reduce...
November 12, 2015A settlement has been reached in Professor Steven Salaita’s case against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for firing him from his tenured position over his personal tweets criticizing...
Join CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren and co-panelists Dawud Walid and Rana Elmir for a timely discussion about the controversial government initiative known as Countering Violent Extremism...
Updated: October 18, 2016
June 19, 2017The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that senior officials from president George W. Bush's administration cannot be held responsible for abuses against Muslim immigrants and others held in the frantic...
March 8, 2018A group of nongovernmental organisations called on the Trump administration to clarify its policy on drone use, saying they are concerned about reported changes to US rules and a lack of transparency...
February 11, 2019..."The US government has a legal obligation and a moral responsibility to follow up on men who are transferred out of long-term military custody, and to ensure that they aren't tortured or killed,"...
Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon and co-counsel will be arguing a series of motions on behalf of Majid Khan in the Guantanamo military commissions. The motions...
Updated: November 13, 2019
July 8, 2021This is the late Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights speaking in 2006. Michael Ratner : “One of our hopes is, really, we believe, and we have believed for 30 years, that torturers...
December 1, 2021...When Israeli officials endeavored to present secret evidence of the supposed “terrorist” affiliations of the six organizations, they were utterly unable to do so. Israel’s action provoked outrage...
March 1, 2023...One of Mr. Khan’s first calls on that new phone was to the two New York City lawyers who had represented him longest and helped him navigate his path to freedom — J. Wells Dixon of the Center for...
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