February 9, 2009, New York – In response to the position Obama’s Justice Department took today in a key rendition case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, Mohamed et al v...
The Trials of Patricia Isasa is a new opera by Kristin Norderval based on the true story of Patricia Isasa, who was kidnapped, imprisoned, and tortured at the age of 16 by the military junta that...
Updated: January 5, 2016
On October 31, 2009, after nearly eight years of unlawful imprisonment at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Ahmad Abdulahad, Abdulghappar Abdulrahman and Zafar Arslan, ethnic Uighurs from far western...
Updated: February 16, 2010
CCR joined 15 civil society organizations in sending a letter to members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations concerning the confirmation hearing of Mr. Rex Tillerson as the United States...
Updated: January 10, 2017
September 11, 2021...Human rights advocates and lawyers for detainees say the Biden administration will be under increasing pressure to bring Guantanamo to a close. “It’s going to be unsustainable for the Biden...
April 16, 2019 – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestine Legal, and the Law Office of Matthew Strugar filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in...
September 21, 2020FILED: New FOIA requests info on Thomson Reuters, RELX Group contracts with ICE Last week, Mijente, the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), CUNY Law School’s Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic (HRGJ...
August 30, 2012, New York – In response today’s announcement that the Department of Justice has closed, without charges, investigations of CIA interrogations of two detainees who died in...
October 1, 2024, Pasadena, CA – Last night, a federal judge ruled in a case challenging the Biden administration’s policy of turning back asylum seekers who approach ports of entry along the southern...
March 3, 2011, New York —Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents Guantánamo detainees and coordinates the work of hundreds of pro bono attorneys on legal...
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