May 2012"War is peace," "freedom is slavery," "ignorance is strength." Thanks to the religious right, we can update these examples from "1984's" doublespeak to include...
September 3, 2013, New York – Today, in a case filed on behalf of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), attorneys argued that video recordings of CCR client Mohammed al Qahtani at...
July 17,2015, New York – Today, on the one-year anniversary of the police killing of Eric Garner, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: One year after Eric Garner...
On February 22nd, 2019, join Center for Constitutional Rights executive director, Vincent Warren , as he gives the keynote speech at "Reimagining the Criminal Justice System," a one-day symposium...
Updated: January 29, 2019
Legal Glossary Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) , also known as Alien Tort Statute (ATS) – The Alien Tort Claims Act is a federal statute from 1789 that allows foreign victims of international...
Updated: February 19, 2010
Join us for a screening of CCR's short documentary "Waiting for Fahd" Saturday, May 16, 2015 2:00pm-4:00pm 10510 Culver Blvd, Culver City Join CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren for a screening...
Updated: June 1, 2015
On Thursday, February 25th, join the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) for a webinar featuring a panel of Israeli, Palestinian, and international legal experts examining the latest...
Updated: February 22, 2021
January 2013Friday January 25, 2013 8:45 am by Omar Farah, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Adnan Latif and Mohammed al-Hamiri arrived at Guantánamo through strikingly similar twists of...
October 2013David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center . When Herman Wallace died Oct. 4 at age 71, he had been a free man for about 2½ days. Before that, he spent 41 years in solitary...
August 17, 2017CCR has a long history of challenging overbroad and warrantless government surveillance, something that has ballooned since 9/11. Last week, we filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to grant...
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