Join the Center for Consitutional Rights as we host the Relay Run for Refugees kick off event on Friday, September 20, 2019. Palestinian runners and refugees will relay 250 miles from...
Updated: September 16, 2019
August 19, 2022...Diamond, a Black trans woman, was released on parole last week, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). During her time in prison, she has twice sued the Georgia Department of...
August 5, 2024... J Wells Dixon, a staff lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights who has represented defendants at Guantanamo as well as other detainees there who have been cleared of any wrongdoing, had...
August 3, 2016Detroiters’ challenge to Michigan’s emergency manager law will be heard Thursday by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Under Public Act 436, or the Local Financial Stability and Choice Act, the...
July 12, 2018...Twenty-six prisoners at Guantánamo remain detained without charge or trial, including the eight men represented in court Wednesday, who have been at Guantánamo between 10 and 16 years. Two of them...
On January 28, 2020, Senior Staff Attorney & Associate Director of Legal Training and Education Rachel Meerpool will join Topeka K. Sam of The Ladies of Hope Ministries,...
Updated: January 22, 2020
February 6, 2020Back in December 2018, civil rights lawyer Chinyere Ezie took to Facebook to share images of a Prada shop in downtown New York with Pradamalia figurines that resembled monkeys in blackface. “I don’t...
On July 15, 2010, the Olympia Food Co-op’s board passed a resolution by consensus to enact a peaceful boycott of Israeli goods. Annual board elections were held in November 2010, in which a number of...
Updated: August 6, 2018
Please join CCR in Washington DC on Thursday, October 15th at 10:00 am for a motion hearing in Ba Odah v. Obama , a habeas corpus petition on behalf of Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni man who has been...
Updated: October 2, 2015
October 14, 2015President Obama's efforts to close Guantánamo suffered a serious blow recently. Congress passed an annual defense authorization bill that includes new, strict requirements for transferring detainees...
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