CCR is grateful for the important work and solidarity of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), and we are honored to join in their 2016 Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Risk Taker Awards ceremony. CCR...
Updated: November 21, 2016
The 24 th episode of “The Activist Files” was the Center for Constitutional Rights’ first live podcast. The episode was recorded Feb. 28, 2020 at Studio Arte before a live audience and was the...
Updated: March 7, 2023
October 5, 2023...The lawsuit seeks to protect participants in the march and other trans and nonbinary people, said Zee Scout, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights who represents the plaintiffs. “...
Join grassroots activists, human rights organizations, and advocates for the detained men in holding President Obama to his promise by taking action. Together, we say “Not another broken...
Updated: May 23, 2014
April 12, 2022Four people are challenging Pennsylvania's lifetime ban on parole for "felony murder."
March 18, 2013 - In response to President Obama’s remarks on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, a coalition of Iraqi human rights groups and U.S. veterans and service members issued the...
March 13, 2017In the final hearing of the Obama administration, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in Ziglar v. Abbasi , a case 15 years in the making for Rachel Meeropol ’02, senior staff attorney at the Center...
September 9, 2016Set to take place on the anniversary of the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility in New York, the call for a national prison strike today, Friday, September 9, by those inside prison...
Saeed Bakhouch, the last Algerian prisoner at Guantánamo, was repatriated to Algeria on April 20, 2023. Mr. Bakhouch spent more than 21 years detained without charge in Guantánamo only to be...
Updated: July 26, 2023
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