November 15, 2007, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an amicus brief in the first Guantánamo case before the European Court of Human Rights. The petitioners in this...
Join CCR on the steps of City Hall to oppose the City’s request that remedies to reform the NYPD’s stop and frisk practices be delayed. Labor organizations, community groups, and others...
Not a single U.S. government official has been called to account in a federal court for the sadistic crimes described in the CIA Torture Report. Waterboarding, rape, sleep deprivation, the list goes...
In the last three and a half years of my life, I have been fortunate enough to not only witness huge strides in the movement to end child sexual abuse but to have become a part of it. History is...
December 9, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents Guantanamo detainees and coordinates the work of hundreds of pro bono attorneys on legal cases...
Katherine Gallagher is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She works on universal jurisdiction and international criminal law cases involving U.S. and foreign officials...
January 2, 2009, New York, NY - On December 17, 2008, the government attempted to halt the cases of approximately 20 detainees the Defense Department had cleared for transfer out of Guantanamo. This...
In a series of rulings issued August 14, 2007, United States District Court Judge Susan Illston rejected Chevron Corporation's final attempts to avoid trial for its involvement in brutal attacks on...
New York State Says to Governor Cuomo: “Stop Secure Communities!” A year ago on May 18th, former Governor Paterson signed an alarming agreement with Immigration that allows them to pick...
Days before the New Year, the Bush Administration worked through Congress to strip federal courts of jurisdiction over the fate of the detainees at Guantánamo despite a June 2004 Supreme Court ruling...
