CCR is a proud cosponsor of the upcoming march, rally, and vigil to #CloseRikers. We will join a contingent of New Yorkers to show Mayor Bill De Blasio that the City is united! The march will begin...
Updated: September 20, 2016
December 1, 2021...Each episode features heartbreaking testimony from the relatives and loved ones of missing women, as well as activists and volunteers who’ve experienced loss themselves, along with law enforcement...
August 17, 2023...The Center for Constitutional Rights defined Black August as a time designated to commemorate and honor “the freedom fighters, especially those inside the walls of our sprawling prison-industrial...
Attorneys: Release must mean restoration of basic freedoms August 15, 2016, New York – Today, the Department of Defense announced the transfer from Guantánamo to the United Arab Emirates of Center...
Madrid/ Berlin/ New York, July 23, 2015 – The Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York, together with their...
July 1, 2011, New York – Yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department announced that it will drop 99 out of 101 C.I.A. detainee torture cases that had been under preliminary review by Federal...
There are dozens of detainees at Guantánamo from “high-risk” countries where there is a potential danger of persecution or torture should they be forcibly returned. At least 20 of...
Updated: January 11, 2010
April 4, 2013, New York – This morning, activist Daniel McGowan was picked up from the halfway house where he has been residing and taken into custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in...
July 21, 2008, New York – In response to leaked portions of Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s speech to be delivered this morning, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director...
May 2011Several years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) obtained emails from the FBI in connection with the organization's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the government related to...
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