December 13, 2017...In a statement, the Center for Constitutional Rights, one of the civil rights groups behind the stop-and-frisk litigation, expressed concern over the number of undocumented stops and criticized...
Hussain Saleh is a life-long Brooklynite and U.S. citizen with roots in the United States dating back multiple generations. His parents and siblings also reside in New York, forming a tight-knit...
Updated: April 10, 2019
Join CCR in Washington, D.C. to mark the 16th anniversary of the opening of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Together, human rights activists, torture survivors, Guantanamo attorneys, 9/11...
Updated: December 20, 2017
December 2014"Under U.S. law, torture is a crime that can lead to life in prison – so why hasn’t it? The Senate report documents comprehensive and detailed evidence of a criminal conspiracy of U.S. government...
January 20, 2023...The trial was set to begin Thursday in federal court in Macon, but Diamond instead decided to dismiss the lawsuit. “Ashley Diamond has decided that a lengthy trial and the trauma of recounting her...
Last Wednesday, the House Agricultural Committee approved House Resolution 4645, which would lift the travel, the only country in the world to which the U.S. government prohibits visits by its...
September 14, 2016Confessed al-Qaida foot soldier Majid Khan withdrew a legally clouded terror charge from his 2012 guilty plea Wednesday and invoked President Barack Obama’s attitude toward the CIA’s secret prison...
February 27, 2019Breaking through a decade-long stalemate, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that survivors of torture at Abu Ghraib can take private military contractor CACI Premier Technology to trial in Virginia...
September 11, 2019... Reacting to the news, Baher Azmy, Center for Constitutional Rights legal director said,”We are gratified the court recognized the reality on the ground, which is that Trump’s asylum ban is...
A case challenging warrantless surveillance by the NSA
Updated: September 8, 2021
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