Today saw the long awaited release of a report by the CIA's Office of Inspector General (the agency's internal watchdog) investigating the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" (...
August 15, 2022Judge rules U.S. border turnback policy illegal—government must end practice A district court judge ruled in Al Otro Lado v. Mayorkas that the government’s turnback policy — its practice of...
Victims Seek Accountability from Court of Last Resort December 6, 2019, The Hague/New York – During a three-day hearing this week, attorneys representing victims of the U.S. torture program argued...
The Case against Avi Dichter International law and Accountability Just before midnight on July 22, 2002, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) dropped a one-ton bomb on Al-Daraj, a densely-populated...
Updated: January 24, 2011
The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to bring attention to our issues and uplift the experiences of those most impacted by the...
Updated: April 8, 2025
August 18, 2015, Guantánamo – Today, an attorney from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a Periodic Review Board (PRB) at Guantánamo to recommend that Mohammed Kamin be cleared for...
September 18, 2024An array of experts is backing Palestinians’ effort to secure court review of their claims that Biden is enabling genocide
Six Incarcerated People Challenging Lifetime Ban on Parole for Those Convicted of Felony Murder October 25, 2021, Harrisburg, PA ‒ A lawsuit brought by six people serving mandatory Death-By-...
December 21, 2015In 2015, we continued many long and hard-fought battles against powerful and well-resourced institutions – the U.S. government, the NYPD, the NY Fire Department, the FBI, and the California...
January 2024 marks 22 years of U.S. detention of Muslim men and boys at the Guantánamo Bay prison. Thirty Muslim men remain at the notorious facility: most have never been charged with a crime...
Updated: January 10, 2024
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