When the Abu Ghraib photos surfaced in 2004, they exposed a system of torture and humiliation of Iraqi detainees that reached far beyond Abu Ghraib to other prisons and involved both military...
Updated: March 5, 2009
July 2, 2020...Wells Dixon, senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, told VICE News last week that the government’s case falsely painted Mattis and Rahman as terrorists. “The implication...
Case Seeks to Stop Dangerous Policy Undermining Rule of Law, Threatening People Fleeing Persecution June 11, 2025, San Diego, CA – People fleeing persecution and torture in their home countries have...
December 3, 2015KCRW Morning Edition The FBI and other agencies are monitoring hundreds of Americans suspected of sympathizing with the Islamic State. Fifty-six have been arrested this year alone for sympathizing...
April 22, 2015, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to a front-page story in The Washington Post about the Obama...
Michelle J. DePass, Oregon, is the president and chief executive officer of Meyer Memorial Trust. DePass began her career as a community organizer in New York and went onto leadership positions in...
March 21, 2014, New York – Today, a group of New Jersey Muslims represented by Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) appealed a federal district court’s...
The Hill Blog - January 4, 2010 By Leili Kashani, CCR After the Flight 253 attack, does it still make sense to close Guantanamo? It is crucial to remember that the vast majority of the men at Guant...
Updated: January 11, 2010
December 19, 2018, San Francisco — A federal court has again blocked the Trump administration’s new asylum ban. The American Civil Liberties Union, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Center for...
May 2010Americans have a long history of scapegoating immigrants during tough economic times. After all, it’s easy to blame “illegal immigrants” for the fact that you’re out of a job...
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