November 14, 2007, New York, NY – Last night, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) attorneys and co-counsel submitted the final brief to the Supreme Court in the case that will determine whether...
December 10, 2007, New York, NY - Attorney, author and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) President Michael Ratner is the recipient of the 2007 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. One...
June 30, 2008, New York – Today, the majority in a federal Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against Center for Constitutional Rights client Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials for their role in...
Court finds claim that UNRWA USA is liable for Oct 7 attacks baseless August 8, 2025, Wilmington, DE – A U.S. federal district court today dismissed a civil lawsuit that falsely claimed that a U.S...
November 4, 2009, New York – In response to news of an Italian court’s conviction of 23 U.S. officials for their role in the extraordinary rendition of a Muslim cleric unlawfully seized...
Obi Nwabuzor is the Strategic Events Manager and is responsible for managing and implementing the Center for Constitutional Rights' public programmatic events. Obi previously worked as the Special...
Lower Court Ordered Fordham to End its Ban on Students for Justice in Palestine November 24, 2020, New York – Today, attorneys representing Fordham University students argued before the Appellate...
September 8, 2015Thirteen years after he was tortured and held in a Syrian grave-like underground cell for nearly a year, Maher Arar has won a victory in his pursuit of accountability. Last week Canada formally...
April 20, 2020We're taking on ICE in Louisiana and Mississippi for overcrowded and unhealthy conditions in detention centers [caption align="right"] [/caption] “We are washing our hands with shampoo because that...
This case is filed on behalf of two Cameroonian men abused by U.S. immigration officials while engaging in a hunger strike to protest their detention conditions and during their deportations. Both...
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