January 23, 2007, New York - Authorities in San Francisco announced the arrests and indictments of former Black Panthers in the 1971 killing of police officer Sgt. John V. Young despite the use of...
On Friday, June 27, 2014, TGNC (Trans and Gender Non-Conforming) People of Color (POC) and allies will take the streets of New York City once again to demand justice and let the world know that the...
Updated: June 12, 2014
December 3, 2018Dispatches from the Border [caption align="right"] [/caption] Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow Lupe Aguirre and Staff Attorney Angelo Guisado have been at the southern border,...
Yasser Ebrahim is one of the original plaintiffs in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a lawsuit filed in 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept...
Updated: September 8, 2021
January 14, 2022...The three Yemenis who have now been cleared for release have been held at Guantanamo since the early 2000s. Al-Rammah has been held at Guantanamo since May 2003 and was accused of "becoming a...
Sheriff channeled resources to use against Dakota Access Pipeline protests and endorsed company’s Louisiana project December 13, 2017, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, human rights attorneys filed a lawsuit...
February 29, 2016At the end of Spotlight , a list of hundreds of cities in the U.S. and around the world in which major cases of clergy sexual violence have been uncovered fills up the screen. You can literally hear...
Accountability for Torture: George W. Bush Visits B.C . Panel Discussion
Updated: September 28, 2011
On September 14, 2007, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) co-counsel argued the appeal of the first case filed by Guantanamo detainees seeking to hold U.S. officials accountable for the physical...
ICE’s Operation Palladium Sparked Wave of “Supercharged Arrest Operation[s]” in Sanctuary Cities December 16, 2020, New York –The Immigrant Defense Project and the Center for Constitutional Rights...
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