October 2011CCR attorney Katherine Gallagher and plaintiff Murat Kurnaz speak with Democracy Now! about lawsuit seeking George W. Bush's arrest in Canada for torture. http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/20/...
CCR seeks a creative, dynamic and experienced leader for the newly-created position of Associate Executive Director (AED) to help lead the organization to greater impact and effectiveness. As a...
Updated: June 19, 2018
On Friday, October 21, 2016 the Public Safety Committee of the New York City Council held an oversight hearing of the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB). CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani...
Updated: January 10, 2017
September 10, 2021... Legal experts told Middle East Eye that while efforts to rein in the 1991 and 2002 war power authorisations were a positive development, the 2001 AUMF would likely remain in place in some shape...
December 28, 2021He was a beacon to people fighting for justice – and a palpable threat to their oppressors
January 14, 2016...The detainees include Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi, who was 17 when he was brought to Guantanamo in 2002, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which advocates on behalf of...
September 9, 2016...“In the next few months, it will be interesting to see whether the administration uses all of its powers to release the many men left who are not yet cleared but who it has no intention of...
November 9, 2018...Baher Azmy, the legal director of CCR told me that the law “could not be more clear that people must be processed for asylum,” even if they cross not at a port of entry. The Refugee Convention...
May 2007Majid Khan tells a military tribunal he was mentally tortured at Guantanamo and twice attempted suicide.
Court of Appeals STATE OF NEW YORK IN RE NONHUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT, INC., ON BEHALF OF TOMMY, Petitioner-Appellant, against PATRICK C. LAVERY, individually and as an officer of Circle L Trailer Sales,...
Updated: April 9, 2018
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