On July 11, 2017, Defending Rights & Dissent, CCR, the Massachusetts chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and Palestine Legal sent a memorandum to Massachusetts legislators opposing S.1689 and...
Updated: February 21, 2018
Human Rights Groups Call Decision Unacceptable and Shameful April 12, 2019, Paris, The Hague, New York – In what human rights groups call an appalling decision, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II decided...
#This Stops Today #11 Days of Action calls for an end to discriminatory and abusive policing and other systemic changes. CCR has signed on to endorse these #11DaysofAction and its accompanying 11...
Updated: December 18, 2014
April 2009In an interview that aired Wednesday night on the CBS Evening News, Attorney General Eric Holder suggested to Katie Couric that the Obama administration is unlikely to depart dramatically from the...
February 23, 2016Announcing his plan to close Guantanamo Bay's prisons, President Barack Obama proposed Tuesday that the United States relocate the camp's detainees to the U.S. mainland where their indefinite...
January 17, 2018Three environmental groups filed a lawsuit accusing a Louisiana pipeline company of refusing to hand over records about its claim to easements across hundreds of residents’ private properties. The...
April 14, 2019But fears for the chilling impact of the prosecution were rampant. The Center for Constitutional Rights, whose late president Michael Ratner was Assange’s lawyer in the US, warned that the threat...
December 16, 2020...The men reacted to the Supreme Court decision with relief. “It is a soaring feeling,” Tanvir said in a statement released by the Center for Constitutional Rights , which represented the three men...
Brooklyn, March 11, 2011 – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court judge to reject the government’s efforts to halt a class action civil rights lawsuit on...
Please Join us for a critical panel discussion as we enter the 10 th year of the prison at Guantánamo When: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 @ 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM What: Outside the Law: Stories from...
Updated: January 5, 2011
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