As the Obama administration accelerates the transfer of men from Guantánamo, the closing of the infamous prison looks to be on the horizon. Join CCR Senior Staff Attorney J. Wells...
Updated: January 21, 2016
Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy will be arguing before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Al Shimari v. CACI , a federal lawsuit brought in 2008 on behalf of four Iraqi...
Updated: May 3, 2016
Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Managing Attorney Shayana Kadidal will be arguing before the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Ali v. Trump . Abdul Razak...
Updated: December 10, 2019
Join the Debevoise Muslim Affinity Group, CUNY CLEAR, the Muslim Bar Association of New York, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, and the Center for the Constitutional Rights...
Updated: October 9, 2020
September 1, 2021...This call for “reparations” has mixed antecedents. In North America, demands have been made for reparations to, among others, the victims of transatlantic slavery and Indigenous genocide...
January 2014by Lauren Carasik, January 13, 2014 Adoption of international norms on LGBTI rights critical to ending discrimination Last month, after an international firestorm opposing its proposed anti-...
September 1, 2015For years California prisons used soundproof and windowless cells to confine thousands of inmates in near total isolation for years. But hunger strikes, Sacramento debates and now a court case...
On July 2, 2008, the U.S. government transferred two Algerians from Guantánamo to the custody of the Algerian government. These were the first Algerians transferred from Guantánamo to...
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 Vigil for Justice - Shut Down Guantanamo 10:00 am to 11:00 am JFK Federal Building, Gov't Center, Boston Signs and banners welcome; a few will be provided (along with...
Updated: November 28, 2007
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