August 1, 2025, Atlanta – Today, Alma Bella Bowman, a longtime Georgia resident and immigrants’ rights activist unjustly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since March, filed a...
December 17, 2014, Berlin – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined a criminal complaint filed by the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) against...
This is a public statement by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation...
By Katherine Gallagher, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights One thing brings these four men together. Hassan bin Attash, Sami el-Hajj, Muhammed Khan Tumani and Murat Kurnaz...
Updated: February 22, 2013
June 28, 2016Today is the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in CCR’s case Rasul v. Bush , in which the Court held that men held in Guantánamo had a right to challenge the legality of their...
March 7, 2022, New York – Mohammed al-Qahtani, held at Guantánamo since 2002, arrived in Saudi Arabia today, where he will receive psychiatric care for schizophrenia that was exacerbated by...
Mr. Khalil's legal team filed a letter requesting the federal court overseeing Mr. Khalil’s case order ICE to permit a family contact visit May 21, 2025, Jena, LA — In a decision that underscores the...
On June 24, 2016, CCR and Palestine Legal sent a memorandum to New Jersey Assembly and Senate members opposing A925 and S1923, anti-boycott bills that would create a blacklist of companies that abide...
Updated: March 27, 2025
December 16, 2015It has been two and a half years since Edward Snowden’s disclosures revealed the massive scope of our government’s bulk surveillance of global telecommunications. The first document to be published...
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