The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) condemns yesterday’s arrest and detention of Aliaksandr (Ales) Bialiatski, President of the Human Rights Center Viasna in Belarus and Vice-President...
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement faces increasing challenges in the United States with the introduction of anti-BDS measures across the spectrum. According to CCR partner...
Updated: February 24, 2017
July 27, 2023...In a desperate effort to draw attention to Bakhouch’s enduring incarceration, the Center for Constitutional Rights, or CCR, published an open letter with signatories from the American Civil...
November 2014“We tortured some folks,” President Obama said recently. I was one of those folks, and today I am at the United Nations to confront the government responsible for torturing me. It is the first time...
August 2012New rules from the Obama Justice Department threaten to return Guantanamo Bay to the legal black hole it was in during the early days of the George W. Bush administration. The rules, which began...
Inspiration from Isolation Please join us Sunday, March 15th at 12:30 pm in Inglewood for Inspiration from Isolation , a presentation featuring CCR President Jules Lobel discussing new expert...
Updated: March 10, 2015
We look at the extraordinary story from Guantánamo of a father and son who were held for many years and what became of them after their release. Abdul Nasser Khantumani and his son Muhammed were...
Updated: June 1, 2015
What does fur have to do with terrorism? The federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) criminalizes a wide swath of First Amendment-protected advocacy and protest activity by animal rights...
Updated: June 1, 2015
March 7, 2017...In the wake of the first travel ban, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Cardozo Law School filed a complaint to the inspector general of D.H.S., detailing the “havoc,” “fear,” and “confusion...
June 19, 2017In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, hundreds of mostly Muslim immigrants were rounded up and held in harsh conditions in New York. They later sued, but on Monday, the U.S. Supreme...
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