The ten years since the attacks of 9/11 and range of government responses have featured two important and competing trends in the arena of civil rights damages litigation. On the one hand, federal...
Updated: November 29, 2011
December 14, 2016...The nomination instantly provoked rebuke, with Baher Azmy, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, telling AlterNet, "It is chilling that someone who oversaw, defended and...
This event has been postponed; please check back for an updated time and location January 11, 2025, marks 23 years since the first group of Muslim men and boys captured in the “War on Terror...
Updated: January 9, 2025
Join advocates from Palestine Legal, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and the Center for Constitutional Rights for a Facebook Live discussion on the meritless lawsuit filed in...
Updated: April 8, 2020
April 2009Reporting from Washington -- In a strikingly defensive explanation of his stance on Bush-era anti-terrorism tactics, President Obama on Wednesday acknowledged for the first time that the harsh...
December 1, 2021... Majid Khan in 2018. He was held for years in the C.I.A.’s overseas prison network. Credit... Center for Constitutional Rights, via Associated Press He anticipated no adverse impact on his career...
June 22, 2015"We're going to beat you up, son." "Son, we're going to take care of you. We are going to send you to a place you cannot imagine." Majid Khan's interrogators meant what they said. In newly...
March 1, 2023...Khan's transfer is the first case under the Biden administration where a detainee has been transferred to a third country. He is also the sixth detainee to be transferred under the Biden...
March 2015"Anti-Semitism remains a very real problem. The line of questioning put to UCLA student Rachel Beyda during her confirmation hearing for a student government position was inappropriate, and yes, anti...
February 9, 2021... "We are deeply concerned about Facebook's proposed revision of its hate speech policy to consider 'Zionist' as a proxy for 'Jew' or 'Jewish,'" wrote the coalition, which includes American Muslims...
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