January 31, 2018...But the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed a federal court brief this month seeking the release of 11 Gitmo detainees, said Mr. Trump ’s executive order “is not the last word.” “It is...
April 11, 2019, Wilmington, Delaware – Today, attorneys representing Palestinian landowners and West Bank residents urged a federal judge to permit their claims against Israeli settlers to proceed in...
Melika Olya, an Iranian native, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus on March 13, 2025, challenging the legality of her indefinite detention at the El Paso Service Processing Center in Texas...
Updated: November 14, 2025
Filing Seeks Documents Related to Border Patrol Emergency Response Unit April 19, 2019, New York, NY – Today, human rights attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Freedom of...
December 22, 2017The United States’ military presence and counterterrorism operations in Central and West Africa have been in the news lately and are raising questions. That is why we filed a Freedom of Information...
The Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) held the petitioner, Mr. Ragbir, removable from the United States by applying a narrow evidentiary standard that the Supreme Court later rejected...
Updated: August 5, 2011
Four Venezuelan migrants filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on September 13, 2024, challenging the legality of their indefinite detention at the Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral...
Updated: February 25, 2025
February 21, 2018Former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada goes on trial in Florida next month in a civil suit over his role in the killing of more than 50 civilians during disturbances in 2003, court...
Edicson David Quintero Chacón filed an amended petition for writ of habeas corpus on April 16, 2025, challenging the legality of his detention at the infamous Terrorism Confinement Center (“CECOT”)...
Updated: April 16, 2025
In Alabama’s complex history, the remnants of slavery in the state’s prison system cast a long shadow. Following the legal abolition of slavery in Alabama, through the ratification of the Thirteenth...
Updated: December 23, 2025
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