August 25, 2023...Federal Judge Leonie Brinkema has just refused to dismiss a long standing case brought against Abu Ghraib torturers for hire, the company known as CACI. Unlike elite media’s misty memories, the...
August 18, 2015Chelsea Manning, the U.S. soldier imprisoned over feeding classified documents to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, faced a disciplinary hearing Tuesday over contraband found in her cell. If the...
Attorneys: Obama must follow through promptly with release August 11, 2016, Arlington, VA – Today, a Periodic Review Board (PRB) made public its decision to clear Guantánamo detainee Sufyian Barhoumi...
On November 9, 2021, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a motion for compassionate release in the Eastern District of New York on behalf of Charles Watts, a 51-year-old Black man who is...
Updated: January 5, 2023
August 3, 2015Over 1,000 people from across the country came together on July 31 and August 1 in Harlem, New York, to help vision and build the legal arm of the burgeoning Black Lives Matter movement. The #...
The Digital Engagement Manager will have three primary areas of responsibility: managing and executing CCR’s social media strategies; helping to further develop CCR’s email communications program;...
Updated: November 28, 2017
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will speak about her litigation to fight the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) alongside eco, animal liberation, and social justice activists from the...
Updated: May 3, 2016
August 2008The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate the torture that Djamel Ameziane experianced while in US custody. You can...
June 26, 2008, New York and Washington, DC —The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must no longer be allowed to use classification arguments in its attempts to prevent the disclosure of illegal or...
September 25, 2019, New York – In response to news that human rights activist Patrick Naagbanton has been killed by a car in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
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