With nearly two decades of non-profit administration experience, Weishin is thrilled to be working at the Center for Constitutional Rights as the interim Director of Operations. Right before joining...
May 2006Federal magistrate in Brooklyn ruled that lawyers defending Ashcroft and other top officials must answer the question of whether or not the U.S. trial team and likely witnesses were aware of secret...
July 2010The United States said on Monday it had transferred two men held at its military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for nearly 8 years to Algeria and Cape Verde, and rights groups said the one sent...
On July 19, 2007, Governor Eliot Spitzer signed into law the Family Connections bill, which states that prison telephone service is a right and not a revenue generator. "Words cannot describe...
September 14 th , 2010 11:00 am- 12:15 pm Constitution Day Speaker and Lunch Ballroom C Speaker: Sunita Patel, Staff Attorney [center for constitutional rights] Immigration, Human Rights, and the...
Updated: September 9, 2010
December 1, 2021... Day Two began with another panel discussion, ‘Guantánamo: The Future,’ featuring three lawyers who spoke compellingly about Guantánamo and the law: Shane Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional...
March 17, 2016I've now spent more than twenty-seven years in solitary confinement, aka Security Housing Units (SHU). My original six-year term started in 1984 and was eventually increased to twenty-one years to...
December 19, 2019...Already, federal district courts in New York, California, Washington state, Illinois and Maryland have issued injunctions blocking the Department of Homeland Security from enforcing its new rules...
March 26, 2016When a United States detention center is hundreds of miles off the coast, it can be difficult for Americans to imagine the plight of the people who have been held there for the past 15 years. The...
CCR senior staff attorney Omar Farah will join a panel at the 2017 National Lawyers’ Guild #Law4thePeopleConvention that will explore recent ways in which Muslims have struggled to safeguard their...
Updated: July 28, 2017
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