April 25, 2018..."The moment the stay was lifted, all these people received visa denials with a notice also saying they were denied a waiver," says Diala Shamas, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is a proud sponsor of the Muslims for Just Futures conference, Convergence for Just Futures :Building Power through Community...
Updated: September 12, 2024
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...
Join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol for a talk about Communications Management Units , the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act , and about her grandparents Ethel and Julius Rosenberg . RSVP on...
Updated: November 16, 2016
December 14, 2017...In a recent study on the mental health consequences of solitary confinement, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Stanford University’s Mental Health Lab concluded that solitary confinement...
January 9, 2020...In the event of war with Iran or a major terror attack, Baher Azmy , the legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, tells Insider that given the Trump administration’s “authoritarian...
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...
June 19, 2015I’ve written extensively about the important and complex legal questions raised by state-law tort suits against private military contractors, many of which have arisen in the context of suits by...
January 15, 2020... Organizers of the “Justice Now: Close Guantánamo and End Torture” rally included Amnesty International USA, Witness Against Torture, Defending Rights & Dissent, Center for Constitutional...
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