Los Angeles, California, May 5, 2008 – New torture claims have been leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib “ghost” detainee who was wrongly imprisoned and later released...
Today, CCR and other civil rights groups submitted a letter to University of California (UC) President Mark Yudof, pressing him to consider the chilling effect of efforts to target Arab, Muslim and...
Updated: December 5, 2012
CCR is thrilled to have a workshop, Letters from Detention: Performance...
Updated: October 11, 2017
Harry Joseph is a resident of Louisiana and pastor of the 114-year-old Mount Triumph Baptist Church in St. James Parish, Louisiana. With a 95 percent African-American population, St. James shoulders...
Updated: May 22, 2019
The criminal justice system may be criminal and it may be a system, but it can hardly be called just. Race and income play a major negative role in every part of the system. This talk will address...
Updated: March 23, 2010
June 2, 2015, New York – Today, unclassified information detailing the CIA’s torture of Guantánamo prisoner Majid Khan was made public for the first time by Reuters, including the fact that he was...
Bush Pens True Crime Book And Better Worry! by Bill Quiqley, Legal Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights; Professor, Loyola New Orleans This article originally appeared on the Huffington...
Updated: November 11, 2010
Join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Katie Gallagher as she discusses challenges to the U.S. interrogation and detention policies in the so-called "War on Terror" at Peace Event Sarajevo. Peace...
Updated: June 2, 2014
March 12, 2026Counterterrorism has been routinely exploited to perpetrate murder, extrajudicial killing, forcible transfer, and genocide.
Over the last several years, we have seen federal, state, and local policies that encourage an aggressive coordination between law enforcement agencies and immigration officials. This has resulted in...
Updated: October 21, 2010
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