Please join CCR on Wednesday, September 21, at 9 am (CST) in Chicago for oral arguments in U.S. v. Johnson , an appeal from the federal prosecution of two animal rights activists under the Animal...
Updated: September 16, 2016
August 15, 2017The adage goes, "Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it." Indeed, this is the very predicament in which the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) could...
On October 28, 2021, Majid Khan read an unclassified personal statement during his sentencing hearing before a Guantánamo military commission. In his words, it is the story that he has been waiting...
Updated: February 2, 2023
June 1, 2023...In 2012, my organization, that was shut down last year in August by the government, Sexual Minorities Uganda, together with partners, Center for Constitutional Rights, CCR , based in New York, we...
June 20, 2024...A judge on Friday ordered a retrial over allegations that a Virginia-based military contractor contributed to the abuse and torture of detainees at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison two decades...
June 4, 2025, Washington, DC — Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today over the detention of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. The federal lawsuit was filed by the...
Victims of the most serious human rights abuses often have no way to seek justice in their home countries. This may be because the government and courts at home are corrupt, or controlled by the same...
Updated: January 11, 2010
April 2014Former US Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. was reportedly punished with solitary confinement for giving legal advice to his fellow inmates, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. An anonymous source...
June 30, 2010, Washington, D.C. – Today, the House Agriculture Committee voted on House Resolution 4645, legislation that would lift the travel ban to Cuba. The United States has maintained...
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