Saeed Bakhouch, the last Algerian prisoner at Guantánamo, was repatriated to Algeria on April 20, 2023. Mr. Bakhouch spent more than 21 years detained without charge in Guantánamo only to be...
Updated: July 26, 2023
On July 11, 2017, Defending Rights & Dissent, CCR, the Massachusetts chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, and Palestine Legal sent a memorandum to Massachusetts legislators opposing S.1689 and...
Updated: February 21, 2018
St. James Parish Council broke own rules to okay expansion into protected wetlands, court finds in Louisiana environmental justice case May 15, 2025, Gretna, LA – Yesterday, a five-judge panel of the...
#This Stops Today #11 Days of Action calls for an end to discriminatory and abusive policing and other systemic changes. CCR has signed on to endorse these #11DaysofAction and its accompanying 11...
Updated: December 18, 2014
April 2009In an interview that aired Wednesday night on the CBS Evening News, Attorney General Eric Holder suggested to Katie Couric that the Obama administration is unlikely to depart dramatically from the...
January 17, 2018Three environmental groups filed a lawsuit accusing a Louisiana pipeline company of refusing to hand over records about its claim to easements across hundreds of residents’ private properties. The...
April 14, 2019But fears for the chilling impact of the prosecution were rampant. The Center for Constitutional Rights, whose late president Michael Ratner was Assange’s lawyer in the US, warned that the threat...
December 16, 2020...The men reacted to the Supreme Court decision with relief. “It is a soaring feeling,” Tanvir said in a statement released by the Center for Constitutional Rights , which represented the three men...
Brooklyn, March 11, 2011 – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court judge to reject the government’s efforts to halt a class action civil rights lawsuit on...
Gitmo Prisoner Who Attempted Suicide is Among Appellants October 1, 2019, The Hague/New York – Yesterday, victims of U.S. torture appealed a ruling by the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International...
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