Center for Constitutional Rights lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on May 29, 2025, seeking records of the Trump administration’s communications with...
Updated: November 20, 2025
November 7, 2016Scott Lively, the US pastor accused of ‘crimes against humanity’ while preaching homophobia in Uganda, is trying in a last-ditch effort to stop the lawsuit. The minister has repeatedly attempted to...
Rufus Henry and Matthew Allen were both convicted of murder in the second degree by non-unanimous juries and sentenced to life in prison following trials in which they argued that they acted in self-...
Updated: January 17, 2025
The Future of Guantánamo We are pleased to invite you to a panel discussion with top experts on the future of detention policy with a particular focus on Guantánamo at Columbia Law School. Who: Andy...
Updated: February 25, 2008
A petition for habeas corpus filed on behalf of Khaled Abd el Ghabar Mohammed Othman by his family members in Yemen as “next friends” (the traditional mode of challenging detention by the executive...
Updated: November 25, 2015
January 25, 2013 – In response to today’s ruling by the D.C. Circuit vacating the conviction of Guantánamo prisoner Ali al-Bahlul, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
Byrd v. Goord is a civil rights case that challenged the collect-call only telephone service for prison inmates operated by the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS). On March 21...
Updated: October 20, 2007
July 19, 2015Earlier this month, fifteen-year-old Tariq Abukhdeir, a US citizen from Tampa, Florida, was savagely beaten by undercover Israeli police in the Shuafat neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. The...
May 18, 2026The Feliz family fights for accountability against a system designed to prevent it
The Center for Constitutional Rights in collaboration with the National Immigration Project, the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ), The Hispanic and Immigrant Center of Alabama (HICA),...
Updated: November 20, 2025
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