Sunday marked the third anniversary of the landmark settlement agreement in Ashker v. California , the class action lawsuit that ended indefinite solitary confinement in California prisons. We have...
May 27, 2009, New York – In response to both the California Supreme Court ruling supporting Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage ballot initiative, and the United States Supreme Court ruling...
After President Barack Obama agreed on Tuesday to sign a $607 billion "defense" bill that undermines his own plan to shutter the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, media outlets sounded the...
After President Barack Obama agreed on Tuesday to sign a $607 billion "defense" bill that undermines his own plan to shutter the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, media outlets sounded the...
November 24, 2014, New York – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Executive Director Vincent Warren released the following statement in response to the news that the Grand Jury in the...
The Defense department recently confirmed that the latest man facing charges at the Guantanamo war court was related, by marriage, to a member of the hijack squad that slammed Americam Airlines 77...
November 2, 2009, New York – Today, a federal Court of Appeals dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials for their role in sending him to Syria to be tortured...
On April 13, 2018, CCR joined Palestine Legal, Jewish Voice for Peace, and eleven other organizations in sending a letter to 280 universities asking officials to take action to protect free speech in...
December 13, 2007, New York – The House of Representatives this evening voted to outlaw waterboarding and other forms of torture not permitted in the Army Field Manual (AFM). The latest version of...
