When the New York Times broke the story of the original NSA warrantless surveillance program in December of 2005, CCR’s legal staff realized that many of our international communications in the...
Updated: September 24, 2012
October 22, 2018VICTORY: Immigrant father and two-year-old son released from detention and reunited! The Center for Constitutional Rights celebrated an incredible victory last week after a federal judge ordered the...
"The memories of the Abu Ghraib detention center are imprinted in my imagination as a movie, playing every time I see images of a prison, or torture, or if I hear of violations of human rights...
Updated: April 10, 2024
May 14, 2021...By opposing and prohibiting funding to many of the Israeli policies of military occupation that violate the human rights of the Palestinian people, and by increasing the transparency around US...
January 20, 2023...Diala Shamas, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights representing the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, describes the legal action as part of a broader Israeli-led strategy to...
April 17, 2019, New York – Today, in response to news that the deportation from Israel of Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir has been upheld, the Center for Constitutional...
October 29, 2013, New York – Today, attorneys in the landmark case Floyd v. City of New York urged the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to reject the City’s effort to delay the remedies...
June 2, 2017CCR has long called for an end to the military commissions system at Guantánamo, a second-class system of justice designed to hide brutal torture committed by the U.S., and a proven failure,...
The Center for Constitutional Rights submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to hear the appeal of Edmund Zagorski, a man imprisoned on death row in Tennessee. CCR argued that the death...
Updated: January 23, 2017
Rights Groups Move to Stop Private Corporations from Intervening in Freedom of Information Lawsuit November 29, 2016, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Detention Watch...
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