New York, NY – Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys today filed two tort claims against the Department of Defense on the second anniversary of the deaths of three Guantanamo prisoners. Today’s...
November 6, 2007, New York, NY – In a key victory in the war against torture, today a federal court ruled that the lawsuit against a private military contractor in Iraq should be heard by a jury of...
January 11 marks the 14th anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay prison , an offshore facility created to isolate, dehumanize, and indefinitely detain Muslim men and boys swept up in post-9...
Updated: January 19, 2016
A current and comprehensive list of CCR's press releases, press statements, and case updates dating back to 2003. This list can be ordered by date or name, and filtered by the issues to which the...
Updated: October 22, 2007
April 6, 2018The NYPD will pay more than $1 million in legal fees and damages, and pledge to end religious-based surveillance, as part of a settlement with New Jersey Muslims who alleged that police officers...
April 6, 2018The NYPD will pay more than $1 million in legal fees and damages, and pledge to end religious-based surveillance, as part of a settlement with New Jersey Muslims who alleged that police officers...
November 22, 2017Donald Trump has sustained more than his fair share of political losses during the first 10 months of his presidency, mostly at the hands of the federal courts. It was the federal courts that struck...
On March 21st at Yale University, join Center for Constitutional Rights advocacy director, Nadia Ben-Youssef , who will join the discussion "Engaging the Oppressor: How Activists Approach the...
Updated: March 15, 2019
Tucked amid the jagged mountain ranges of Yemen resides the sleepy town of Bayt Ghazy. Home to an idyllic agrarian community, it also provides the backdrop for the heartrending documentary “Waiting...
Updated: November 14, 2014
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Jennie Green to speak at Rebellious Lawyering Conference, Yale Law School The African Public Interest Lawyer: Rebellious Lawyering on the Continent This panel will explore...
Updated: March 5, 2009
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