January 11, 2024...DOZENS OF LEGAL and civil society organizations from around the world have thrown their weight behind a U.S. lawsuit accusing President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights on July 29 for a hearing in our lawsuit, Stanley v. Ivey , which challenges involuntary servitude in Alabama prisons. The Defendants, Governor Kay Ivey and...
Updated: June 14, 2024
From the Firedoglake Website: For those who saw the response to the Trade Center attacks as an opportunity for the U.S. to uphold international law, this country's conduct has been a failure of...
Updated: February 23, 2010
The Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture Presents: Gitanjali Gutierrez. She will give a lecture entitled "American-Style Torture: Guantanamo, Black Sites and American Values"...
Updated: March 20, 2008
In 2002, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen, was detained at a U.S. airport on his way home from a family trip. He was interrogated by U.S. officials about alleged links to al-Qaeda and was repeatedly...
Updated: November 5, 2010
Since the first habeas corpus petition for detainees was filed on February 19, 2002, CCR has helped coordinate a movement of over 500 pro bono attorneys who have filed habeas petitions for more than...
Updated: January 11, 2010
August 2010by Dina Temple-Raston The father of the Internet's most famous radical cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, is planning to sue the U.S. government for including his son on a CIA target list. Nasser al-Awlaki...
Join Pardiss Kebriaei, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, for a discussion of how in the First 100 Days of his administration, the next president can close Guantánamo, end...
Updated: October 10, 2008
Click on the link below to watch CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren, CCR President Michael Ratner, and others speak at an event held at the Culture Project in New York City on November 27, 2007...
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