November 23, 2015 – On the anniversary of 12-year-old Tamir Rice’s killing by police in Cleveland, a coalition of law students, legal workers and attorneys known as Law for Black Lives issued the...
The Center for Constitutional Rights, The Supreme Court Institute & The Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law Invite You to Attend a Panel Discussion of Professor David Cole...
Updated: February 16, 2010
A federal lawsuit on behalf of 13 Yemeni-Americans for the unlawful revocation of their family members’ previously approved visas due to the Muslim Ban.
Updated: February 20, 2025
December 11, 2008, New York – In response to the release today by the Senate Armed Services Committee of a bi-partisan report almost two years in the making on the abuse of detainees in U.S...
February 1, 2021Black History Month 2021: A Legacy of Irresistable Black Futures [caption align="right"] [/caption] We are launching our celebration of Black History Month today and will update you with events and...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren and CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei will both join distinguished panels of legal experts as part of a continuing legal education (CLE) seminar with...
Updated: March 1, 2017
July 19, 2016... Efforts to prosecute within federal law mini-American Nurembergs have likewise been stymied. For years, attorneys from the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and other legal...
March 1, 2016Retired U.S. Army General Geoffrey Miller, the former commander of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, did not appear for questioning before a French court on Tuesday, after being subpoenaed last month...
November 5, 2021...A detainee held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre has offered the first public account in a United States court of torture at a CIA clandestine facility during Washington’s decades-long so-...
November 5, 2021...The abuses, which spanned three years after Khan was detained in Karachi in 2003, included being waterboarded, hung naked from a ceiling beam, starved, and being physically and sexually assaulted...
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