August 17, 2017CCR has a long history of challenging overbroad and warrantless government surveillance, something that has ballooned since 9/11. Last week, we filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to grant...
The Abolitionist Law Center (ALC), Amistad Law Project (ALP), and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of individuals serving mandatory sentences of Death By Incarceration (...
Updated: October 25, 2021
April 3, 2018Herman Bell, a 70-year-old former Black Panther and political prisoner, was recently granted parole after being behind bars for 45 years and denied parole seven previous times. In response, interest...
Quigley's lecture, “ Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: How to Destroy an African-American City in 33 Steps ,” was prompted by a conversation at a New Orleans grocery store: “I...
Updated: August 16, 2012
August 3, 2020, Miami – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated a trial court judgment that had been entered in favor of Bolivia’s former president, Gonzalo Sánchez de...
August 15, 2018, New York – In the wake of the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing widespread sexual violence across the state and cover-up by senior leaders of the Catholic Church in...
August 16, 2016... Among those released is Zahir Hamdoun, a Yemeni citizen held at Guantánamo without charge since 2002, when he was 22 years old. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Maria LaHood will speak on a panel at Hunter College titled Freedom of Speech, Except When Criticizing Israel: Systematic Attempts to Silence Palestine. This panel will shed...
Updated: March 8, 2013
Since the 1970s, combating sexual and gender-based violence has been an integral part of CCR’s mission. We fought for recognition of the right to self-defense for victims of domestic violence,...
Updated: March 8, 2017
January 2011US officials said Thursday an Algerian national who was held at Guantanamo and cleared of terror suspicious by a US judge more than a year ago was repatriated, despite his objections.
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