September 23, 2008, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an opening brief for rehearing en banc with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of Canadian rendition...
CCR and Muslim Advocates File FOIA on Opaque Muslim Ban Waiver Process January 23, 2018, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Muslim Advocates (MA) filed a Freedom of...
Fernando Garcia is the Capital Campaign Associate at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He works with the Director of Development to plan, manage, and execute all campaign initiatives. Before...
February 9, 2021... Over 100 national and local human rights organizations called on President Joe Biden Tuesday to close the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention facility once and for all. “It is long past time for...
Sunyata Altenor (she/her) is the Communications Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she directs the overall communications strategy for the organization. Prior to coming to the...
April 8, 2014, Guantanamo Bay and Washington, DC – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) client Ghaleb Al-Bihani, a Yemeni citizen who has been held without charge at Guantanamo for...
On May 24, 2010 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted Mr. Cardenas’ petition for review. The court vacated the Board of Immigration Appeals’ 8-6 en banc decision...
February 2009Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the U.S. government. Mohamed was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004 and...
As lawyers and advocates who are accountable to the intergenerational Black freedom struggle, the Center for Constitutional Rights has for Black people to reject the inhumanity of human hierarchy,...
Updated: February 18, 2022
Article II: Torture and Extraordinary Rendition. Participants include Michael Ratner and Vincent Warren of the Center of Constitutional Rights, Jonathan Hafetz, journalist Tara McKelvey, Carol...
Updated: November 21, 2007
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