November 8, 2013, New York – In response to an appeal filed today by former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr, seeking to overturn his conviction before a military commission, the Center for...
February 2012On Tuesday, February 28, the Supreme Court will hear a challenge brought by 12 Nigerian plaintiffs who say a Shell oil subsidiary aided and abetted acts of murder, rape and systematic torture by the...
February 5, 2015 – In advance of today’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Senator Kelly Ayotte's bill to stop transfers from Guantanamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Maria Lahood is a visiting assistant clinical professor at Northwestern law school's McArthur Justice Center and senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Maria specializes in...
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May 20, 2008, WASHINGTON, D.C. — Guantanamo attorneys, experts, and – for the first time - a former detainee today testified to Congress to call for a solution for the approximately 50 refugees still...
May 14, 2021...Prison officials violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment if they are deliberately indifferent to conditions of confinement that pose a substantial risk of...
June 10, 2015, New York – Four American Muslim men with no criminal records who were placed or kept on the No-Fly List by the FBI in retaliation for their refusal to become informants finally...
February 2012Peter Weiss, Vice President of the Center for Constitutional Rights discusses Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum, in which a group of Nigerians claim that they or their relatives have been the victims of...
February 5, 2009, New York – Attorneys for Mohammed al Qahtani, the victim of the “First Special Interrogation Plan” overseen by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, filed a motion last night...
March 21, 2024A few months ago, I gathered with colleagues and allies to mark the 10th anniversary of the landmark stop-and-frisk ruling , which held New York City liable for a pattern of unconstitutional stops...
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