When Ashker v. Governor of California was filed as a class action in 2012, California held thousands of prisoners in solitary confinement, in Security Housing Units (SHU). Hundreds of these prisoners...
Updated: September 1, 2015
New York, NY – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) attorneys hailed the decision of Guantánamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan’s military commission as a significant development in the battle...
March 15, 2021[caption align="right"] March 13 marked the one-year commemoration of the killing of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman who, at the height of what we now know is the worst pandemic of our...
This report released by the Center for Constitutional Rights includes the newest and most comprehensive numbers and lists of detainee status by nationality. The three simple steps are: 1) send those...
Updated: January 11, 2010
July 27, 2017Activists for Palestinian rights have long known of Israel’s efforts to criminalise the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, the global solidarity campaign that seeks to put pressure on...
A due process challenge to the Communications Management Units (CMUs), two highly restrictive federal prison units that segregate certain prisoners and severely limit and control their communication...
Updated: March 1, 2022
On December 16, 2025, the Center for Constitutional Rights sent a submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights to inform the thematic report on definitions...
Updated: January 6, 2026
August 18, 2021... There is strong support for BDS by myriad civil and human rights organizations. Forty-two of them — including the Center for Constitutional Rights, New York Civil Liberties Union, United...
This full-time, 6-month temporary position will provide administrative support to the Operations department (Finance, Facilities, Human Resources, and general administration). The temporary...
Updated: March 9, 2022
April 16, 2016Saudi Arabia has accepted the transfer of nine Yemenis from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including a onetime associate of al Qaeda and the Taliban who personally knew Osama bin...
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