January 11, 2024, marks 22 years since the Guantánamo Bay prison has been open. Thirty Muslim men remain detained, including 16 who have been cleared for release. The Center for Constitutional...
Updated: December 26, 2023
A challenge to corporate impunity of private military contractors under the Alien Tort Statute for war crimes and torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
Updated: May 5, 2026
On Friday, March 5, 2021, at 2 p.m. ET, join the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP for an oral argument on the government’s motion to...
Updated: March 4, 2021
June 9, 2010— A broad coalition of human rights, health, and religious groups filed a formal complaint today with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Human Research...
Attorneys for Abu Ghraib Torture Survivors Say Case Petitioned to SCOTUS Survives June 17, 2021, Washington, D.C. –Today, the United States Supreme Court limited – but did not foreclose – the ability...
May 1, 2024This was the first time that victims of the United States’ post-9/11 torture testified in a U.S. courtroom
July 19, 2011, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement today support of the hunger strikers at the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit: "The Center for...
December 10, 2017...Extended solitary confinement can and does lead to prolonged and sometimes permanent negative socio-psychological and physical effects. In a recent study on the mental health consequences of...
On April 28, 2020, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined a coalition letter addressed to International Criminal Court (ICC) States Parties calling for them to demonstrate support for the ICC in...
Updated: May 4, 2020
On September 15, 2004 California Superior Court Judge Victoria Chaney rejected an attempt by Unocal Corp. to dismiss a lawsuit charging it is responsible for human rights abuses committed by the...
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