The heartrending documentary “Waiting for Fahd,” tells the story of CCR client Fahd Ghazy, a Yemeni national unlawfully detained at Guantánamo since he was 17..
Updated: September 4, 2021
September 23, 2009, New York and Washington DC —In response to the CIA’s refusal to either ‘confirm or deny’ the existence of key torture documents, three human rights groups...
June 29, 2011, New Orleans – Late last night, legislation eliminating the mandatory sex offender registration requirement for individuals convicted of Louisiana’s Solicitation of a Crime...
The UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination will be convening a series of panels to...
Updated: July 6, 2016
On July 2, 2008, the U.S. government transferred two Algerians from Guantánamo to the custody of the Algerian government. These were the first Algerians transferred from Guantánamo to...
June 2014By Laura Raymond, Advocacy Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights "I would like to recall the first US war in Iraq, in '91 at 2:30 a.m. when those bombs went down and they devastated...
September 1, 2015Changes in solitary confinement procedures in California prisons are at the core of a legal settlement announced Tuesday. The agreement in federal court between the state and a group of inmates held...
May 5, 2015, New York – The following statement was issued today by the Center for Constitutional Rights: The crisis in Yemen is only deepening. Innocent Yemenis are caught between the brutal war...
May 10, 2010, New York – In response to President Barack Obama’s nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive...
June 6, 2015This week, the Center for Constitutional Rights had the honor of joining two dozen human rights organizations in support of Haitians seeking accountability from the United Nations for its role in...
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