Virginia: Richmond Prisoners will have access to a guide that teaches them how to file lawsuits under a settlement with the Department of Corrections. The National Lawyers Guild and the Center for...
CCR will argue on behalf of its client, Maher Arar,in his federal lawsuit challenging his rendition by the U.S. government, where he was tortured, forced to falsely confess, and released after one...
Updated: October 28, 2007
March 2012CCR Executive Director Vince Warren claims that what white American evangelicals are doing in Africa by talking to political and religious leaders about anti-gay legislation is the same thing they're...
February 2008Two unjustly accused Guantanamo detainees, Adel Hassan Hamad and Salim Mahmud Adam, sue the United States for compensation for their infringed rights. Article brings attention to the majority of...
October 21, 2016Two groups seeking records from federal authorities over their monitoring protesters of police-involved shootings are suing the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, saying both agencies...
February 2007Two unjustly accused Guantanamo detainees, Adel Hassan Hamad and Salim Mahmud Adam, sue the United States for compensation for their infringed rights. Article brings attention to the majority of...
December 2014"A grand jury decision not to indict a New York policeman over a fatal chokehold underscores how difficult it is to charge an officer in the United States, even when the tactic appears to...
February 2008Article speaking to the Military's use of FBI and other military interrogators to obtain similar information from detainees to that extracted during sessions of "durress" by the CIA, in...
Register to join CCR President, Michael Ratner, former Guantanamo prisoners from around the world, and the family members of those still incarcerated, on the tenth anniversary since the opening of...
Updated: January 4, 2012
July 2012In a lawsuit filed today, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights allege the United States violated the constitution's guarantee of due process when it ordered the...
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