June 28, 2017Things could have been so different. The Supreme Court’s 2016–17 term, which ended with a flurry of activity on June 26, underscores how much liberals and progressives lost by not coming out for...
On Friday March 16th as CCR’s Azure Wheeler will be arguing that an element of the settlement agreement—the creation of a unit to house prisoners whom the California Department of Corrections and...
Updated: February 28, 2018
On Tuesday, February 15, join CODEPINK Congress & Massachusetts Peace Action for the second event in their Special Series on Foreign Policy!
Updated: February 22, 2022
Len Kamdang is the Director of the Criminal Justice Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where he leads national efforts to combat systemic injustices in the criminal legal...
April 30, 2013, New York – Today, President Obama spoke about Guantanamo at a press conference and said, among other things, "Now Congress determined that they would not let us close it...
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), together with its United States member organization, the Center for Constitutional Rights, warns of a rapidly decaying democracy and rule of law...
January 22, 2010, New York – In response to the announcement that President Obama has decided he will detain 50 of the approximately 200 remaining men at Guantánamo without trial...
Join Hawa Bah, mother of Mohamed Bah, for a rally and vigil to demand the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate the NYPD killing of her son Mohamed Bah. CCR recently signed on to a letter along...
Updated: February 7, 2017
Washington, November 1, 2012 – This morning CCR scored a major victory in our long running effort to hold private military contractors responsible for their role in the torture and war crimes...
Updated: December 20, 2012
August 15, 2016After over 14 years of detention in Guantánamo without charge, Zahir Hamdoun today earned his freedom, transferred along with 14 other men from US custody to the United Arab Emirates. Zahir, a Yemeni...
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