February 26, 201815 years after torture at Abu Ghraib, a historic ruling in the fight for accountability Nearly 15 years after the horrific abuses at the Abu Ghraib "hard site" prison in Iraq came to light, a...
Closing Remarks at Protest by Leili Kashani, Advocacy Program Manager, Center for Constitutional Rights Almost exactly four months ago today, a young Yemeni man cruelly detained for more than ten...
Updated: January 16, 2013
Challenges the NYPD’s suspicionless surveillance of Muslim Americans on the basis of their Muslim identity
Updated: March 18, 2022
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...
In his recently released memoir Decision Points, George W. Bush admitted that he enthusiastically authorized that certain detainees be waterboarded – or tortured, a crime under domestic and...
Updated: November 10, 2010
Berlin, November 10, 2008 -- Five leading human rights groups today call on European governments to provide humanitarian protection to Guantánamo detainees who will not be charged with any crime but...
February 7, 2011, Geneva and New York – Today, two torture victims were to have filed criminal complaints, with more than 2,500-pages of supporting material, in Geneva against former U.S...
September 18, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
Action brought in Canada under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: November 12, 2019
Horrific Treatment of Victims Constitutes Torture and War Crimes February 21, 2018, Alexandria, VA – Today, a Virginia federal judge ruled that the treatment of three Iraqi individuals formerly...
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