September 29, 2011, Vancouver – Today, the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ) lodged a detailed and lengthy...
Attorneys: Obama must follow through promptly with release August 11, 2016, Arlington, VA – Today, a Periodic Review Board (PRB) made public its decision to clear Guantánamo detainee Sufyian Barhoumi...
Israel’s enablers in the United States ramped up their efforts to shut down the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement known as BDS. Many states including New York have passed laws...
This week, the New York City Council passed Resolution No. 1058-A, which condemns the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli human rights abuses and violations of...
New York, December 16, 2011— The Center for Constitutional Rights, representing Julian Assange, publisher of the WikiLeaks media organization, filed a petition this morning seeking guaranteed...
Mass deportations are reckless, inhumane--and unlawful [caption align="right"] [/caption] For the second time in under a month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of...
Frank Mugisha is the executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda ( SMUG ), the plaintiff represented by CCR in their lawsuit against Scott Lively, a U.S.-based anti-gay extremist. Frank is here in...
September 5, 2019, New York – Today, a newly publicly-released court filing revealed that a Guantánamo prisoner has attempted suicide. According to an emergency motion filed by the Center for...
Seven years ago today, Israeli commandos attacked a six-boat flotilla en route to Gaza, to break the Israeli siege and to deliver humanitarian supplies to Palestinians effectively cut-off from the...
April 2, 2014, Chicago – Yesterday afternoon, the Senate Judiciary Committee of the Illinois Senate rejected Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 59, proposed by Senator Ira Silverstein (D-Chicago),...
