May 5, 2024...The plaintiffs can seek a retrial. Asked if they would do so, one of their lawyers, Baher Azmy with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said that “the current expectation is that we’ll continue...
February 11, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Lawyers Guild sent a letter to eight New York City Council Members, in response to their threat to...
Updated: February 11, 2013
The Center for Constitutional Rights sent a letter to University of Illinois Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise on August 7, 2014 regarding her decision to terminate the appointment of Professor Steven...
Updated: August 7, 2014
January 2010A federal judge on Thursday ordered the City of New York to remedy years of discriminatory hiring in the Fire Department by giving hundreds of black and Latino applicants jobs, along with years of...
In the small community of Newburgh, New York a mysterious businessman infiltrates a local mosque supposedly looking to cultivate business associates. He is in fact working as an informant for the FBI...
Updated: June 1, 2015
Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign on March 7 for our monthly vigil. The NSJ campaign seeks to raise awareness around human rights and civil rights...
Updated: March 3, 2016
Please join CCR on Wednesday, September 21, at 9 am (CST) in Chicago for oral arguments in U.S. v. Johnson , an appeal from the federal prosecution of two animal rights activists under the Animal...
Updated: September 16, 2016
August 15, 2017The adage goes, "Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it." Indeed, this is the very predicament in which the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) could...
On October 28, 2021, Majid Khan read an unclassified personal statement during his sentencing hearing before a Guantánamo military commission. In his words, it is the story that he has been waiting...
Updated: February 2, 2023
June 1, 2023...In 2012, my organization, that was shut down last year in August by the government, Sexual Minorities Uganda, together with partners, Center for Constitutional Rights, CCR , based in New York, we...
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