July 12, 2018...Twenty-six prisoners at Guantánamo remain detained without charge or trial, including the eight men represented in court Wednesday, who have been at Guantánamo between 10 and 16 years. Two of them...
On January 28, 2020, Senior Staff Attorney & Associate Director of Legal Training and Education Rachel Meerpool will join Topeka K. Sam of The Ladies of Hope Ministries,...
Updated: January 22, 2020
February 6, 2020Back in December 2018, civil rights lawyer Chinyere Ezie took to Facebook to share images of a Prada shop in downtown New York with Pradamalia figurines that resembled monkeys in blackface. “I don’t...
On July 15, 2010, the Olympia Food Co-op’s board passed a resolution by consensus to enact a peaceful boycott of Israeli goods. Annual board elections were held in November 2010, in which a number of...
Updated: August 6, 2018
Please join CCR in Washington DC on Thursday, October 15th at 10:00 am for a motion hearing in Ba Odah v. Obama , a habeas corpus petition on behalf of Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni man who has been...
Updated: October 2, 2015
October 14, 2015President Obama's efforts to close Guantánamo suffered a serious blow recently. Congress passed an annual defense authorization bill that includes new, strict requirements for transferring detainees...
September 11, 2017Time moves slowly for the five men accused of the 9/11 attacks . Sixteen years after the World Trade Center was toppled, the case against the alleged mastermind and his co-plotters looks set to drag...
January 2010The New York Times has rerun an absurd story claiming that 1 in 7 Guantanamo detainees have "returned" to terrorism. By CCR lawyer Shayana Kadidal.
Keynote Speaker: Maria LaHood, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights Come hear Maria talk about Arar v. Ashcroft, the case against U.S. officials who rendered Canadian Muslim Maher...
Updated: September 3, 2008
CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren will provide remarks at the Annual Networking Event for Lawyers of Color in Legal Services, Legal Aid and Firms with a Public Interest/Pro Bono Practice. There...
Updated: October 23, 2013
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