Khan Tumani, et al., v. Obama, el al ., was a habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of Abdul Nasser Khan Tumani and Muhammed Khan Tumani, a father and son from Syria who were unlawfully detained in...
Updated: August 30, 2021
January 15, 2016In the summer of 2002, Chinese security officers arrested Doe VIII (whose name is withheld to protect his family), a practitioner of the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong. His arrest was part of...
October 2009When he took office, President Obama made clear that torture is illegal and that the United States would not abuse detainees in its custody. But when it comes to those tortured during the Bush...
In January 2016, the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent conducted a fact-finding mission to the United States. CCR co-coordinated the Working Group's visit to New York City, and...
Updated: September 15, 2016
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, CLEAR, and the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton for Supreme Court argument in our case, Tanzin v. Tanvir . CUNY School of Law Professor...
Updated: October 5, 2020
December 9, 2008, New York – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued that high-level government officials must be held accountable for sending Canadian rendition victim Maher Arar to...
September 2, 2019We're suing to keep immigrant families together [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Tuesday, community organizations filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration’s cruel, racist, and patently...
WASHINGTON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ - The U.S. Supreme Court sent a terrible message with its refusal today to hear the case of 250 civilians allegedly tortured and seriously harmed by corporate...
June 13, 2023NYPD’s street crime units are frequently making illegal stops and nearly exclusively stopping Blacks and Latinos, according to the Court-appointed Monitor.
Washington, DC – Top human rights organizations, actors, musicians and activists, including Viggo Mortensen, Roseanne Cash, Amnesty International and the Center for Constitutional Rights, sent...
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