The purpose of the FOIA request and lawsuit is to obtain information for the public about federal agencies' policies of imposing fines and monetary penalties on individuals, specifically immigrants...
Updated: January 21, 2026
April 13, 2016Amid a news cycle crowded with reports about Republican fearmongering and the Obama Administration’s bureaucratic paralysis on closing Guantánamo, a local news article last week from Fort Wayne,...
Please join us on Thursday, February 12th for oral arguments in Ashker v. Brown , a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison who have spent between 10 and 28 years in...
Updated: February 2, 2015
July 8, 2015Two years have passed since people confined in California's Pelican Bay State Prison initiated a 60-day hunger strike to protest the conditions associated with the prison's "security housing unit,"...
January 11th, 2010 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. in Wallace Hall at St. Ignatius Loyola Church (Park Avenue and 84th Street in Manhattan) Gathering as a People of Light and Hope: Casting Out The Darkness of...
Updated: January 8, 2010
On Friday, January 18, the government made public a motion filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on behalf of Majid Khan, a former CIA ghost detainee now held at Guantanamo. The motion...
January 19, 2017Yesterday, senior staff attorney Rachel Meeropol argued our case Ziglar v. Abbasi before the Supreme Court . By all accounts, it was a masterful presentation, expertly parrying the justices’...
July 6, 2023... A new letter from a coalition of human rights groups (including the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Palestine Legal) calls on the school to...
Join CCR in Washington, D.C. to mark the 16th anniversary of the opening of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Together, human rights activists, torture survivors, Guantanamo attorneys, 9/11...
Updated: December 20, 2017
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...
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